So many bugs!

[Mark Griffin]

This afternoon on the Lehigh River below White Haven, I saw the heaviest hatch and biggest rise of fish I've ever seen on that river. For hours all afternoon there were olives all over the place and the fish were goin' nuts. What a blast!

Can anyone make a positive ID of these guys? They were mostly size 16's with some a little larger and some smaller. I didn't see any Hendricksons.

With everything I've seen and read the last two weeks, this could be the buggiest year ever.
Guys, we're gonna have fun this year.

 

[The_Sib]

Same bug

That appears to be the same bug that several of us have described in posts over the last couple of weeks. I am thinking its Caucci/Nastasi's Ephemerella X. ( dark Hendrickson )
- Maybe ( I dunno ). Three tails is not a QG, looks too dark to be an olive.

Anybody else willing to venture a guess????

 

[The_Sib]

In addition

By the way Mark, nice shots.

 

[dcabarle]

Anybody else willing to venture a guess????

From left to right... Paralep, Hendrickson, Hendrickson. That's just my opinion.

 

[Mark Griffin]

Yeah, I guess there had to be some Hendricksons in there. The small size had me doubting them. The pics on the rocks were taken using the super-macro setting at about 2.5-3". They were quite small. I would say no bigger than 16's.

 

[serotonin]

I've been hitting similar hatches up here lately, on a spring-fed stream that pops earlier than everything else. The Hendricksons have been about 14. I guess we've got vagans (2 tails, and too small to be quill gordons) about 18, w/the occasional yellow-bellied stonefly about 10, and of course midges, all coming off simultaneously.
The fish have been gorging themselves, and we've been catching 25+ fish each, on dries in the 2:30-4:30 window. The fish are still looking up at 6:00. No real big fish yet, but the quantities are fun. Sometimes the fish will hit w/abandon, sometimes we see them refusing naturals; go figure.
Occasionally we'll see a spinner or two, but not in any numbers. What time of day should we expect the spinner fall on these mayflies?

Thanks for sharing the photos, Mark.

 

[serotonin]

Here's a crappy photo from my disposable, which can't focus closer than two feet. It's my first of the year on a dry. (Taken about 2 1/2 weeks ago, before the bugs really started popping).

It was nice to fish dries, after being sub-surface for six months!