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Favorite hatch on the globe

skipper3245

skipper3245

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Well mothersday caddis is almost here. I know many of you have fished all over the place. All over the world. And lots have prob seen some insane hatches. Which is your favorite one to go back to. My favorite ended up being in yellowstone park on july 24th. Nothing like it. Goldenstones, salmonflies, caddis, hoppers all at once. I try to go back every year to the same place on that date. Anyone else have any favorites? Ones they cannot miss?
 
I have to say sulphurs. For fishing in the East they are generally the most consistent hatch, the weather is usually outstanding, and I hate to get up early so I like the evening hatches/spinner falls.
 
Last year on the main the apple caddis, hedos were awesome fish rising everywhere.

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I love fishing the big March Brown hatch up in the Catskills. Nice to watch that big fly on the water.
 
I also find the summer sulphers on the Catskill tailwaters to be my favorite hatch.

Fighting cunning trout in the ice cold water, which mixes with the dead heat of summer to produce a thick chilling fog that blankets the river, all comes to mind when I think of this hatch.
 
I used to like trolling the Bikini hatch in Ocean City, NJ when I was in my teens, but now that I have grown and married, I enjoy the evening caddis hatches on the SBR in the late spring...ask me what specific bug it is...I do not know, nor do I care, but the fish will eat brown soft hackles, brown X-Caddis, and brown Iris Caddis' size 16, all evening long.....
 
I like the complexity and variety of Bug Week in the Catskills. Lots of flies on the water with big, wild trout looking up. But sulphurs are the money hatch of the year when it comes to hatches that make fish eat flies in our waters. Hendricksons do it first, but sulphurs do it better and for longer.
 
late spring yellow iso around dusk on the sbr is always fun. Anyone do any october caddis fishing? I have never hit it but I hear its fun.
 
I like when the Isonychia hatch starts, because once fish are on them, they can be pounded up in many places with a big Iso pattern. But that's not usually a blanket hatch that can be depended on. For that, I also like the sulphurs. Like others have pointed out, they're very dependable, and the fish tend not to ignore them like they sometimes do with some other hatches. As the hatch progresses, the bugs get smaller, the trout pickier, and the challenge greater. Gotta' love that.
 
skipper3245 said:
late spring yellow iso around dusk on the sbr is always fun. Anyone do any october caddis fishing? I have never hit it but I hear its fun.
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Yes they are fun..the fish take them hard..you don't see a lot of bugs, but the fish know they are there and will willingly take them....this is on the SBR......I do not get to travel much......
 
My favorite is the black fly hatch it keeps half of you guys off the water.
 
My favorite hatch is the one happening when I'm standing in the water, unless its a mosquito or black fly hatch.

But, my favorite and probably the most fished hatch in the northeast is the salmon egg hatch.

Cdog
 
The most consistent and longest hatch in the Northeast is the sulphur hatch. I get a big kick out of catching the Hendricksons or March Browns, but the sulphurs fish the best.
 
I'd vote the stonefly hatch during the late fall & winter on the eastern shore Lake O tribs. While drifting eggs and patterns that imitate are always effective the nymphs certainly produce more when the fish are turned on to them. As a second choice, the PMD hatch on certain streams I fish out west in August. I've been more & more using a PMD emerger pattern while fishing the Rocky's later in the summer...found out that cutties are really turned on by those flies. I use this fly both as a dropper under a bushy dry fly and in a tandem nymph rig.

On a side note, taking out at the Ashton reservoir on the henry's fork was the craziest bug action I have ever seen.

skipper3245 said:
Well mothersday caddis is almost here. I know many of you have fished all over the place. All over the world. And lots have prob seen some insane hatches. Which is your favorite one to go back to. My favorite ended up being in yellowstone park on july 24th. Nothing like it. Goldenstones, salmonflies, caddis, hoppers all at once. I try to go back every year to the same place on that date. Anyone else have any favorites? Ones they cannot miss?
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Rusty Spinner said:
I'm going to convert you from the centerpin rod and you'll be going full-on Tenkara with 20' rods for chromers and salmon:)
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Yeeeeeeeeeeehawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! 20' rod wit 50lb tes. Yank dem babies outa da wata n into da treez!

Cdog
 
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I don't have enough experience to be definitive, but I just experienced the Skwala hatch south of Missoula on the Bitterroot River last month. Holy crap.
 
bob longo said:
I don't have enough experience to be definitive, but I just experienced the Skwala hatch south of Missoula on the Bitterroot River last month. Holy crap.
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yup yup very fun indeed. Also the grey drakes on the upper madison is pretty nuts.
 
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