Midwest Hex

[jbird]

This area is mostly sand and clay substrate. Very prolific hexegenia mayfly habitat. The town of La Crosse is on the Mississippi and every business establishment that burns lights at night has biblical plagues of mayflys. They are 1/2" thick carpet on sidewalks under street lamps. Millions and millions of them.

[bubzilla]

Someone told me once that they have so many back there in places that their carcasses are collected and burned as biomass for power, Jay. Any truth to that? Sounded unbelievable at the time, but given what you are saying....

[jbird]

Sounds crazy to me. But theres a mess of em.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Maybe that is why we sell a lot of small yellow panfish poppers?

[Larry S]

Saw a few Hex flies on the upper end of Crowley recently. The MidWest hatches are
legendary and bring on the original "Midnight Madness." Have seen streets in northern Mich
coated with shucks. Usually meant a hiatus in lake trolling for a week or so.
Here's a link from the "Upper Midwest Flyfishing" board - a Doppler radar sighting
of hex hatching in mid-Wisconsin; jbird's new haunts.
http://uppermidwestflyfishing.com/ph...=424&mode=view

Larry S