mbwmn
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
i was out on a very quiet section of the Musky saturday nite (upstream of Penwell/Pt.Mtn) w/ the wife, and she got her first 3 on a fly! exciting stuff...
around 8:15pm there were so many fish rising you would have thought it was raining! i tried 10+ different dry flies w/ no luck. there were some small (sz16?) dark gray caddis(?) earlier in the evening, and i was trying elkhair and sparkling emerger patterns: no joy.
just before we got off the water (9pm?) i shined? my headlight down and saw hundreds of what appeared to be spent mayflies floating by. in the light of my headlight they also appeared to be a darker grayish color. i had been expecting (and pitching) sulphurs, as i've been seeing masses of them in flight further downstream in the more turbulent water around Pt.Mtn. these spent flies did not appear to have the more "solid" wings of caddis. (i think caddis look like moths). the spent flies had wings spread that were veined like a mayfly...
any ideas what these were, and for how much longer i can expect to see them? some of the rises just before i noticed all the dead ones were quite spectacular, w/ fish leaping out of the water. not the subtle concentric rings i've seen w/ privious caddis (grannom) hatches...
tia,
-mike
around 8:15pm there were so many fish rising you would have thought it was raining! i tried 10+ different dry flies w/ no luck. there were some small (sz16?) dark gray caddis(?) earlier in the evening, and i was trying elkhair and sparkling emerger patterns: no joy.
just before we got off the water (9pm?) i shined? my headlight down and saw hundreds of what appeared to be spent mayflies floating by. in the light of my headlight they also appeared to be a darker grayish color. i had been expecting (and pitching) sulphurs, as i've been seeing masses of them in flight further downstream in the more turbulent water around Pt.Mtn. these spent flies did not appear to have the more "solid" wings of caddis. (i think caddis look like moths). the spent flies had wings spread that were veined like a mayfly...
any ideas what these were, and for how much longer i can expect to see them? some of the rises just before i noticed all the dead ones were quite spectacular, w/ fish leaping out of the water. not the subtle concentric rings i've seen w/ privious caddis (grannom) hatches...
tia,
-mike