Fishing Report, 6/21/10 The Wood River's "Hex" Hatch
Top left, Hex nymph, note two tusks for borrowing into soft mud and silt. Bottom left Hex spinner. Top right Jim D'Ambra with a nice Wood River Bow.
Hi again, we fished the Wood River last night and where not disappointed! Richard Pearce and I started at 7:00pm and fished from “The Pan” to upstream for a good ¼ mile or so. At this time we did see a few fish rise and only noticed a small amount of midge, no mayflies at all. We fished larger flies (size #16 sulfur emerger and a gray soft hackle dry) trying to get them to come up but to no success. I did manager to get one fish to come up to a BWO just before dark, but did not hook up. At 8:45pm we started seeing the Hex duns flying in the air and some floating on the surface of the water. This year this hatch (Hex) is late maybe because of the recent cool nights we have been seeing, it usually starts around June 14th or 15th. At 9:00pm both spinners and duns where on the water in very goods numbers and fish where coming up to both stages very aggressively, we took rainbows and browns. I like using the spinner imitation during the entire hatch, fish did not refuse our offer. For my dun imitation I like using a white or orange Wulff pattern, tied very sparse. This is the only time of the year that I use a loop to loop connection for my leader system. This allows me to switch over to a much heavier leader fast and easy especially during low light conditions. I just remove my longer tapered leader (via loop to loop) from the 2’ butt section, and put on a 6’ or 7’ piece of 8 or 10 lb. test of monofilament, straight no taper. This not only keeps the tippet from curling and looking like a slinky because of casting such a large fly that catches more air, but when greased with fly floatant it helps to keep the fly high and dry much longer. After releasing a fish I always squeeze my fly in a piece of shamy or paper towel to remove as much moisture as possible and then treat it again with floatant. Oh, remember to a have a good light, one with a red or green lens filter.
My best always, Ed www.edlombardoflyfish.com
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