What Is Your Favorite Hatch To Fish & Why

[Broadheadscreek]

My favorite hatch to fish is the Slate Drake which on my home waters is a prolific hatch and a predictable one at that. They hatch the best on warm rainy afternoons and on the warm evenings, starting in mid to late June and continuing through September.

The beauty of fishing this hatch is you don't have a lot of competition. As most people don't like to fish in the rain or simply clear out before the hatch begins. Leaving you with the entire stream to fish by yourself.

Because of the intensity of this hatch it tends to bring up most every fish in the stream. I have seen stretches of my home water boil with more than 30-40 fish at a time. Also it tends to draw some of the biggest trout in the stream from their layers to feed on top . Giving you a shot at a 20" plus from fish time to time if you are in the right place.

So what is one of your favorite hatches and why?

 

[G Lech]

Those pics are awesome!
My favorite has gotta be the hendrickson's on my home waters on the SBR.

I think about it daily.

 

[coolkyle]

My favorite hatch (though with limited experience) might be the trico hatch. Fishing early in the morning usually means streamers or nymphing. There's something about hiking into a spot on my favorite tailwater at first light to see fish rising all over the place. The afternoon winds are hours away, so a 3wt works just fine, and I can catch fish on dries, eat lunch, take a nap, and fish dries again for the evening olive hatch. Late summer rules.

 

[trico mike]

The 17year cicada was my favorite hatch huge bugs and huge fish. Considering I have to wait about 14 more years though I'll take the trico. Also flying ants are great whaen you can hit them. Nothing like seeing flying ants all over the diner window at breakfast. Yuo know the morning fishig is going to be superb. They also coincide with the trico. As cool said nothing like summer flyfishing.

 

[johnboy85]

That's probably Hendricksons for me. Reason, I follow them from the 3rd week in April through most of June on the various rivers I fish. I have to say the BWO (20-24) is a close second. Probably also due to duration. BTW, I'm messing with my camera to take some fly pics with marginal sucess so far.
Thanks for a good thread BHC!!!

John

 

[WBDluver]

I love the march Brown hatch. The fish act like bucks in rut. It doesn't last long, (kinda like sex)

 

[johnboy85]

I love the march Brown hatch. The fish act like bucks in rut. It doesn't last long, (kinda like sex)

March Browns are right up there for me too. It presents a perfect opportunity to pound up fish with dries and what can I say about spider fishing!!! Just amazing....Also great weather....

 

[PRomano]

My favorite hatch is whichever is hatching at the moment when I have the right imitation and I'm knocking them silly!

 

[GARYB]

I like the March Brown because it goes all day and the weather's great.
It also is the time for the Iso's, sulphurs and drakes.

 

[flyman23]

I also love to fish the big March Browns. My second choice would be the supher hatch on the WB.

 

[Trout Fever]

i would have to say caddis hatch

 

[Broadheadscreek]

Some great hatches listed here thank you guys ! Anyone here fish the cornuta hatch it's a great one to fish, takes place in the morning starting around 8am and finishing up around 11am sometimes a little later on overcast days. Nothing beats tossing a size 14 olive pattern in the morning...

 

[johnboy85]

Some great hatches listed here thank you guys ! Anyone here fish the cornuta hatch it's a great one to fish, takes place in the morning starting around 8am and finishing up around 11am sometimes a little later on overcast days. Nothing beats tossing a size 14 olive pattern in the morning...

Allen

I had the good fortune to fish cornutas a few times. i was nymphing cairns on morning on the beaverkill and the place exploded with cornutas. and once on the west branch with a similar explosive response...absolutely insane for morning fishing. fish are very fussy and i tie several shades of olive bodied flies for this now. i caught fish both times but had lots of inspections/refusals. as you know its maybe an hour hatch so some lomited time to change flies.

good call on the cornutas,,,,,thanks john

 

[NJpatbee]

The Hendricksons are my sentimental favorite because they are a sure sign that the mayfly season is on, but the Sulphurs provide the best hatches and most consistent dry fly action on my home waters.

 

[Trout Fever]

That's probably Hendricksons for me. Reason, I follow them from the 3rd week in April through most of June on the various rivers I fish. I have to say the BWO (20-24) is a close second. Probably also due to duration. BTW, I'm messing with my camera to take some fly pics with marginal sucess so far.
Thanks for a good thread BHC!!!

John

hey john you have to sent your camera on macro and find the right distance and zoom just right ... pain in the ass but once you figure it out you got it just tough figuring out for every 15 pictures i still only get 1 or 2 that are clear enough to post

 

[johnboy85]

hey john you have to sent your camera on macro and find the right distance and zoom just right ... pain in the ass but once you figure it out you got it just tough figuring out for every 15 pictures i still only get 1 or 2 that are clear enough to post

TF

I trying but the camera is an old sony cybershot and it may be time to upgrade. I am buying a new kayak so a camera is second on my list for now. I will post some "marginal" pics. thanks...john

 

[Rusty Spinner]

In the past I would always say Hendricksons because they provide the first real good dry fly fishing of spring and are a precursor for things to come.

But over time I have come to think that complex hatch days are my favorite. Multiple bugs coming off and fish feeding, but on which one(s)? At which life stage? There is something about that challenge that I like these days.

 

[johnboy85]

In the past I would always say Hendricksons because they provide the first real good dry fly fishing of spring and are a precursor for things to come.

But over time I have come to think that complex hatch days are my favorite. Multiple bugs coming off and fish feeding, but on which one(s)? At which life stage? There is something about that challenge that I like these days.

I hear ya. Those are the moments thak keep us growing in the sport. Love reading rise forms and trying to figure fish out..good post!!!

 

[Broadheadscreek]

In the past I would always say Hendricksons because they provide the first real good dry fly fishing of spring and are a precursor for things to come.

But over time I have come to think that complex hatch days are my favorite. Multiple bugs coming off and fish feeding, but on which one(s)? At which life stage? There is something about that challenge that I like these days.

Complex hatches are fun to fish Rusty see them a lot up in the Catskills, and run into them occasionally on the home waters . Here is a picture from one of those days in the Poconos. Keeps things interesting for sure! Isos,March Browns and olives all at the same time... Um what to fish?

http://burntdrags.blogspot.com/

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Bug Week in the Catskills always comes to mind when multiple hatch days occur. One particularly frustrating day was in early June in the Gamelands or thereabouts on the WBD many years ago. If memory serves, we had Green Drakes, Isos, sulphurs, olives and various caddis coming off with several mayfly spinners added to the mix. I couldn't fool these fish to save my life, I maybe landed 2 even though they were rising everywhere and taking just sub-surface. Upstream was my buddy, a part-time guide who was fishing with me, and I kept noticing his rod bent. I finally walked upstream to ask what it was he had figured out. Turned out to be emerging black caddis and very small in size. Huge bugs everywhere, sitting on the surface film and ripe for the taking yet the trout were chasing (relatively) tiny emerging caddis. I walked back downstream shaking my head, tied on a black LaFonataine sparkle pupa in black, and began to get sore arms.

I am both bothered by the fact I couldn't figure that day out by myself and amazed at the rest of my day on that one day. Needless to say, I bought dinner and drinks for my buddy that night! I have been fortunate enough to be in that same position many times since. And now I relish the challenge, even when the fish beat me.

 

[kbuchta]

I like the Sulphur hatch as they are a nice way to close out the evening. Had a chance to fish one this summer up on the Pipeline, Farmington River. What a great time! It made the late night dinner worth it.

 

[Eagle Claw]

Isonichia, big bug, big fish and long lasting hatch

 

[Trout Fever]

lol the march browns are quiet exciting..... as long as you have a full moon and can wait till the spinner fall

 

[G Lech]

Isonichia, big bug, big fish and long lasting hatch

Word up!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Trouser Trout]

GB's favorite Hatch is the "Richard Hatch" he of course is the fag that won "surrvivor" a few years back. GB was enamored with him.