"Peter A. Collin" wrote in news:mEzSf.3669
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BlackOtter wrote:
I live in south central (slightly to the east) Montana and the March
Browns are about ready to start hatching. Actually, I've heard some
already have. But around here, this is the first big mayfly hatch of
the year and really kicks in towards the end of March or early April.

But I was lamenting to a friend about how the dry fly fishing for those
is fairly unproductive and those that you do catch are usually dinks.
He commented that has been his experience too.

It's not until the caddis (Mother's Day hatch) starts to come off that
you really start getting a lot of good surface action.

I was just wondering if there were other areas where the March Brown
provides good dry fly fishing.

March browns are a nice hatch in the northeast, taking place around late
May. (May Brown?) The cool thing about them is that they are a big
bug, the large mouthful lures good sized fish to the top. Also, instead
of hatching all at once at a particular time of day the way that
Hendricksons and others do, they trickle off the stream throughout the
day. that makes for nice leisurely dry fly fishing all day long.

Pete Collin

Speaking of Hendrickson's, will you be fishing the park when they hit?
Maybe we can get together.

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Scott
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