Fall river has always been the most iconic location.
We have them on Lake Natomas.
Help me make a list.
Fall river has always been the most iconic location.
We have them on Lake Natomas.
Help me make a list.
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Lake Almanor
Butt Valley Reservior
Antelope Lake
To name a few, Almanor is famous for the Hex hatch and not to far away Butt Valley Reservoir. Lake Davis has been getting some hatches as well, the Thermalito Afterbay too!
Lance Gray says this is the list so far:
Fall River
Lake Almanor
Butt Valley
Thermaleto Afterbay
Davis Lake
Siskiyou Lake
Lake Natomas
Antelope Lake
I know they have them back in the northeast US.
They get swarm that can be seen from space.
They call then "Michigan Caddis"....?
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
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Lance's new list:
Fall River
Lake Almanor
Butt Valley
Thermalito Afterbay
Davis Lake
Siskiyou Lake
Lake Natomas
Antelope Lake
Walker Lake
Tule River
Henderson’s Springs (private property)
Lake Amador
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
567 Barber Street
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Good one Carl......thanks.
Besides lake Natomas I heard we get them hatching on the side backwaters ponds, sloughs on the lower American river.
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
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Hi Bill,
When I was going to school in Michigan, they called them "Giant Michigan Mayflies". We fished some epic hatches on the Au Sable and Pierre Marquette for huge browns in late June then followed the bugs "up north" to the upper peninsula. The hatch started popping around 10pm and went all night and there were millions of them clinging to everything. We also fished hex hatches on stillwaters in Minnesota and Wisconsin and the bullheads, a kind of catfish, would vacuum spinners off the surface the next morning. After a few days of the hex, the fish were so gorged they wouldn't eat any more. Wild times
I don't remember the Hex called a Michigan Caddis but I do remember a wet fly we used for Great Lakes steelhead called a Michigan Caddis tied on a big hook, like a #6 3XL, with brown palmered hackle over a slim fur body and swept-back mallard quill wings that looked like a monster old-school English or Catskills wet fly.
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
567 Barber Street
Sebastian, Florida 32958
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Bill;
Retired California Fish and Game Biologist Kenneth Hashagen published a paper in California Fish and Game Quarterly many years ago that indicated the California distribution of Hexgenia limbata californica included most of the Sacramento and San Joaquin river system from the Delta upstream including many lower elevation reservoirs. Permanent slow moving or still water habitats with silt bottoms were the common factor.
The first time I saw Hexgenia limbata californica was in 1969 when the mayflies were covering the wall of a gas station under a light near the lower Merced River. The largest number of adults I have seen at one time were at Ladd’s Marina in the Delta in the late-1980’s, and on the shady side of the DFW Feather River Fish Hatchery Annex raceway walls off Highway 99 near the Thermalito Afterbay in 2012. In both instances there were thousands of the adults.
Dennis
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Last edited by DPLee; 01-31-2021 at 03:58 PM.
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