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Our most notable hatch, the Hexagenia mayfly , are hatching now.... If you like fishing dry flies while blindfolded, this is the hatch for you... Get a headlamp (red preferred) and a wading staff, and get into the river around sundown... The hatch will increase as darkness descends on the river... Fishing is mostly by sound... If you hear a "take" where you believe your fly is, lift your rod, and see if the fish has taken you fly or one of the many "naturals" on the surface... You really need to experience this at least once in your life.... Bring a friend for enhanced safety.. Don't use the headlamp unless you really need it.. and then turn away from the river while the light is on, otherwise you will likely spook the fish.
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Figured the hex's might have started this year so I took my gf down to evening hole yesterday to try our luck. The fish were liking my hex dry but loved my gf's hex spinner with a crazy pink dropper alot more. She caught close to the same number of fish on both of her flies and probably 3 to my 1. I did see some hex's floating by me right a 9 pm (maybe 20 flies) and the fishing turned on for a minute. By 9:15 the hex had stopped and so did the fish. This makes maybe a dozen times I've tried the hex hatch in late evening on mountain fork. Seems to be hit or miss and it's anyone guess how it's going to be. Does anyone know the optimal conditions for this sporadic hatch? Has anyone ever witnessed a good number of these flies coming off that you could actually call it a "hatch"? And I left the river by 9:30, should I have stayed? Just looking for any info that could help me. Ever comment is much appreciated.
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9ft5wt
I have caught the hex hatch many times in the past, as in before they made the changes to the evening hole. I have a good number of flies that I tied up just to take advantage of this hatch. It is not an easy hatch to predict as much as say a BWO. But what I can tell you is when the conditions are right and the hex hatch starts up you will be absolutely amazed. Normally it is late in the season when the big hatch occurs. But you will see sporadic hatches from time to time before the major hatch time. When the hatch does happen every fish in the river turns on at once. I never knew just how many fish there was in the river till I seen this happen. The fish will be rising all around you, even right next to you to grab one of those big Hexes’s. It is truly amazing to witness. The down side is predicting which night it may happen, and of course being there when it does happen. But if you are there when it does WOW is all I can say. Now I have noticed several times that the fishing is fast and furious when it happens and it turns off just as fast. It’s almost like you need to be armed and at the ready when it happens. You really don’t need to worry about where you are going to cast since you will most likely be casting close to dark anyway but you do need to consider what is behind you beforehand. Once the fly hits the water it should not take more than 10 seconds before something hits it. As soon as you see several of these big flies hatch you really need to change up quickly to a big yellow or big brown pattern. It really doesn’t matter much if it isn’t an exact representation, you just need the size and the color, and they will hit it. When I say big I am talking about a size 8 or bigger mayfly. Enjoy it when it happens just don’t count on it to happen big time just yet.
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