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MikeA

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What's your favorite Hatch.
« on: December 01, 2009, 09:07:45 AM »
Caddis, Sulpher, Shad, Egg, Midge, bikini, Sasquatch, etc.

For me a good Sulpher hatch was some of my most fun with a fly rod. I’ve heard all about the Locust hatch but missed it every time.
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 09:22:38 AM »
Since I haven't got the chance to fish the Caddis or Sulphurs yet would be the Cicada's.

2011 will be the next hatch of the 13 year Cicada's.
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2009, 09:41:04 AM »
Funny,I have hit 2 cicada/locust hatches and both times the fishing was terrible and I did not even see any rises.
Both times the rivers were high and off color.
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2009, 10:30:43 AM »
When I was living in Michigan, the sulpher hatch was by far my favorite ... though there was a sorority near Grayling, MI that hosted an annual "ca-nuding" trip right in late August before their fall semester ...
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2009, 10:53:47 AM »
Yellow Sallies in Shady Valley. By far the the most fun I have ever had in a freestone stream.
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2009, 11:29:09 AM »
Sulphur hatch on the South Holston River was my favorite.
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2009, 11:43:05 AM »
I enjoy two because one usually follows the other.  The canoe hatch followed by my favorite, the bikini.  ;D
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2009, 12:19:59 PM »
The Shad Hatch
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2009, 03:55:49 PM »
Green Drakes
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2009, 05:46:47 PM »
Stone fly hatch  Rio Grande Gorge northern New Mexico
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2009, 07:55:20 PM »
Caddis hatch I`ve seen it so thick you couldn`t open your mouth, or you couldn`t tell your fly from the real thing . Montana has the best Mothers day Caddis hatch around. 
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2009, 10:05:51 PM »
Definitely the hex hatch here in Michigan.
June for the Au Sable or Manistee and big browns.
August for the Huron and big smallies.
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2009, 09:12:52 AM »
17 year Cicada hatch.  Unbelievable the summer before last.  Imagine the entire tree covered steep bank filled with the buzz and chatter of  singing bugs. 
Then imagine under every hanging leaf covered limb...a pod of smallies 1-4 lbs smacking the surface or sipping the fallen bugs like trout rises to midges.

We had three summer afternoons of bliss.  Almost every drift by the bank would get a hit.  I'll be counting down the next fifteen years, and checking the trees for bugs when the time comes again!













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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2009, 09:29:52 AM »
I would to catch that hatch.
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Re: What's your favorite Hatch.
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2009, 08:35:03 PM »
That Cicada hatch was unreal T Wiles.  Good times and great memories
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