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Cold Water Fishing Reports => Fly Fishing General Discussion => Topic started by: toddro on August 04, 2011, 11:40:53 PM

Title: Now That's A Hatch!!!
Post by: toddro on August 04, 2011, 11:40:53 PM

Mayfly hatches so huge they show up on NOAA radar.  Wow!   :o

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=arx&storyid=71376&source=0

Title: Re: Now That's A Hatch!!!
Post by: Glenn Hawkins on August 05, 2011, 05:54:28 AM

That's a lot of bugs! :o

Title: Re: Now That's A Hatch!!!
Post by: MikefromMO on August 05, 2011, 11:55:25 AM

That is crazy! Back in Missouri, we could trach snow geese using NEXRAD radar... Never thought a mayfly hatch would be big enough to show up!!!

Title: Re: Now That's A Hatch!!!
Post by: grumpy on August 06, 2011, 07:24:28 AM

 I read an article once about MI, they have to use street sweepers to clean the roads when the hatch goes bonkers, they say it's just like driving on ice :o

Grumpy

Title: Re: Now That's A Hatch!!!
Post by: Steve H on August 07, 2011, 07:16:29 AM

I saw that the other day. A LOT of bugs for sure.

Title: Re: Now That's A Hatch!!!
Post by: Mike Hill on August 08, 2011, 07:17:02 AM

I was in the middle of one in Canada.  Tried to fish that evening at the camp, and couldn't.  In your hair, in your nose, in your mouth.  The next morning there were miles of matted spents floating on the lake - miles and miles.  What a waste as nothing seemed to be eating them.  The Cree said that the bears would gorge themselves on them, but the pike, walleye, perch didn't seem to touch them. 

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