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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:50 pm
by PortMurrayAng
I thought it was a grasshopper at first.

Re: 4/15

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:28 pm
by Vance
Hi, It looks like the two top pictures are Quill Gordon’s because they have two tails but the bottom looks like a Red Quill with three tails the tail on the right you can just about see,but if you look close you can make it out as it curves to the right. Aren’t May Flies pretty. Vance

Re: 4/15

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:30 pm
by Fishybig
Looks like a hex to me but could be that first MB...way to big fer any hendrickson on this planet....

Re: 4/15

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:33 pm
by Rusty Spinner
All three are March Browns. Maccaffertium vicarium. It helps to know that the Musky has zero hex hatches, and if it did, they would be summer hatches. It also helps to know that this is the time for March Browns after the Hendricksons have finished their hatch first.

Re: 4/15

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:55 am
by PortMurrayAng
It's the same fly in all 3. I thought match brown, too. It led me to another question.

Do flies start hatching in tribs earlier than on the rivers they flow into?

Re: 4/15

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:55 pm
by Rusty Spinner
PortMurrayAng wrote:
Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:55 am
It's the same fly in all 3. I thought match brown, too. It led me to another question.

Do flies start hatching in tribs earlier than on the rivers they flow into?
It depends entirely on water temperature and what are called "degree days". Generally, hatches begin downstream and work upstream due to warmer temps the further downstream you go. That holds true for smaller tributaries or major rivers.