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Bruce · Jul-09-13 10:59AM

Fished today with Roney and John Foley at Algonkian from 7 to 10:30am. Cloudy, calm day with a few sprinkles. Water was stained with visibility about 2'.

River was covered with tiny (1/8") white flying insects. Where the insects were the thickest on the surface, smallies were sucking them down with great regularity...as were some carp too. Anyway, we caught a ton of smallies, but most were small with only about 20% of the fish between 12" - 15'. Most of the fish were caught on 3" Rapala floating minnow lures. Just had to watch the surface, see where the fishing were eating the flies, and try to land your lure nearby. Almost every well-placed cast produced a fish. Sorry, but no pictures as the fishing was too much fun to stop for pictures.

Does anyone know what the white insects might have been? Not sure how long this hatch lasts, but when it occurs, fishing is great.

Bruce

Curly · Jul-09-13 11:48AM

Probably mayflies.........

jffoley · Jul-09-13 12:52PM

Great fishing with you again, Bruce. And meeting Roney. The fishing was terrific this morning. I stayed another hour or so as my unemployment days are numbered. Got to make the most of these weekday outings. Biggest I landed was 14". And I did miss a beaut. Real strong, I thought is was a catfish at first. It stayed down, taking drag then came out of the water in front of Roney and spit the jig. Dang! That one woulda rivaled that 3+lber you caught, Bruce the last time we fished Algonkian together. Some good ones around there!

Here's the one pic I did take:

http://s1023.photobucket.com/user/jffol … 9.jpg.html

Bruce · Jul-09-13 2:29PM

Curly wrote:
Probably mayflies.........

Curly,
They don't look like the pictures of mayflies on the web. These were much smaller, shorter in length, and white. These were only about 1/8" long.
Bruce

Ernie · Jul-09-13 2:59PM

Good work fellas.....could be the White Fly.

jffoley · Jul-10-13 7:11AM

I believe they were Trico's. Very small mayfly:

http://www.flyfisherman.com/2012/08/...#axzz2YeStkXTH

http://blog.maryland-flyfishing.com/?p=333

http://www.wvangler.com/west-virginia-streams.html

Bruce · Jul-11-13 2:16AM

John,
Went to some other sites to check out pictures and descriptions of behavior. Sure sounded correct...they must have been tricos.
Bruce

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Algonkian 7/9 & White Flying Insects

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