Thread: Late Hatch Prediction
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04-08-2019 #61
Re: Late Hatch Prediction
I agree, not trying to start a pissing match (you guys know the system way better than me), but for someone who's new up there, we can make their heads spin with what flies to fish when. One time in the fall I was fishing a Hex spinner fall at Long Eddy, I can't even believe I had a spinner that big on me at the time (I had just 1, guys I was fishing with were SOL, but I let them have a few casts with mine). I tie a variation of a rusty spinner that floats well, is visible, and generally covers just about everything. That's my lazy-man fly when I don't want to get all fucking matchy-hatchy.
Roll up the windows Brian, you're letting the stank out.
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04-08-2019 #62
Re: Late Hatch Prediction
What's your rusty spinner pattern? hard to find one that floats and is visible and works well. I don't tie, but sometimes I think they overdo the poly or snowshoe wings.. the sparse ones seem to catch more fish.
by the way, my cousin gave me a handful of size 14 spinners with a day-glo parachute post last year, and my first thought was, "this was really dumb", because it looked so odd, and you usually see parachutes on low sitting dries or emergers, but it made the spinners much more visible in the dark, and didn't seem to turn off the fish at all. If i tied, I'd spin some up this spring.
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04-08-2019 #63
Re: Late Hatch Prediction
Fishing those imitations doesn't mean that is what was hatching. You likely saw Quill Gordons at that time of year, certainly not March Browns. I don't care how warm the water was. And yes, last year was a very cold, snowy late winter that held off the hatches at least a week or ten days, if not more. This year is on the slightly early side so far. No surprise with a warm, relatively low snow winter.
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04-08-2019 #64
Re: Late Hatch Prediction
seems a bit arrogant to assume that your week of getting skunked @ the dreamcatcher every season qualifies you to discount the opinion of someone who lives on the river and fishes it all season long.
also for what it's worth -- mudbug's 7 year old son is a wiz with bug ID it's very impressive. maybe the mom is teaching him tho, and mudbug doesn't know shit...
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04-08-2019 #65
Re: Late Hatch Prediction
ah go easy on him kid. He's just a flatlander trying to be helpful. and authoritative. mostly authoritative.
rusty... there were march browns in the air, on the water, in the mouths of the giant trout I was catching...
If you don't believe me, ask my buddy who was fishing with. He was runner-up for Orvis guide of the year in 2018.
Kid, the arrogance that concerns me is not toward me or my 8 year-old, but toward nature, in all its unpredictability. If mayflies and trout did as the books say, this shit wouldn't be any fun at all.
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Re: Late Hatch Prediction
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