Quillback Posted June 17 Posted June 17 Somebody posted these images on BBC. Says it was after a night of fishing on Pickwick last week. I have never seen anything like it, anybody else? dpitt, bfishn and Johnsfolly 3
fishinwrench Posted June 17 Posted June 17 Oh yeah! About this time every year on the middle portion of the Salt River. It's pretty gross ! I've camped through it before. Tents, trees, and cars covered like that the morning after. So thick you can smell them.
Quillback Posted June 17 Author Posted June 17 Cicadas - Pffffhhhtttt, they ain't nothing compared to that. Someone was saying the mayflies were so thick they were cleaning the streets with front end loaders and hauling them away in dump trucks.
dpitt Posted June 17 Posted June 17 Never seen them that thick, they are abundant at Clinton Lake in Lawrence, but not even close to that!
fishinwrench Posted June 17 Posted June 17 They'll suffocate a Coleman lantern in no time at all, on the Salt river. Those particular mayflys are "burrowers", and if your in an area that has a sandy/silty bottom it's not uncommon to have literal blanket hatches when the conditions are just right. You might expect the fishing to be GREAT....but typically it's just the opposite. I think even the fish get overwhelmed. bfishn 1
Ryan Miloshewski Posted June 18 Posted June 18 Yep, on the Sac River two years ago. Setting trot lines around 10pm, the entire boat was covered and lanterns full of them. None of the fish we caught had any in their stomachs. “To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”--Aldo Leopold
Gavin Posted June 18 Posted June 18 If you have not experienced the Hex Hatch in the Northland, you must go! They usually get thick about NOW (Weekend after Father's Day). I chased it up MI for a few years and we would float and fish at night. It is a hit or miss thing, but it can be incredible. A sporadic hatch, or a spinner fall is usually better than one were emergers carpet the water. BilletHead and Quillback 2
tjm Posted June 18 Posted June 18 Mayfly hatches in the billions of insects can show up on weather radar looking like a major storm. But, a study of them between 2012-2019 in the Upper Mississippi River and Western Lake Erie Basin suggest that the number of mayflies in the Mississippi River region has declined by 52 percent since 2012 and in the Lake Erie area populations have gone down by 84 percent.
BilletHead Posted June 18 Posted June 18 I think I may of posted this before but will do again. Simply crazy! Quillback, bfishn and grizwilson 3 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
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