riverman wrote:

I SAW A HATCH! I mean, REALLY saw a hatch!

Cool. Fishing a mayfly hatch is the essential flyfishing experience,
IMO. The day before yesterday I went to the Big Wood a second time for
the green drake hatch. These are big bugs -- size 12 -- and the fish go
nuts for them. It was outstanding.

I lost what I thought was my last green drake dry fly on a fish
(AARRGH!), so I tried a a few flies that I thought might work -- a #12
parachute adams, a very small green-bodied stimulator, and a #12 green
EHC. The fish utterly ignored them. Then I found an actual green drake
pattern in my crowded flybox and again caught fish. It brought home to
me the importance of matching the hatch under these conditions.

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