Well, hello!

Noticed a big bug on the screen as I was getting ready for work this morning. Recognized it IMMEDIATELY. Hexagenia Limbata - or as it's more conversationally known amongst obsessive fly fishing types:

HEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes called the Michigan Mayflay, these big bugs turn on an unparalleled feeding frenzy. Hexes started early in Northern Michigan, and from most accounts finished up last week. Late June is early for the Huron, but that's how things have been. This usually marks the beginning of Huron River smallmouth fishing me. A great evening is fishing the dusk hatch, just a few miles from home with no crowds.

Cool part about hex dries is how easy it is. You're not trying see a #16 BWO drift. We're talking an inch-long, mostly white fly. The takes are unmistakeable. And seeing the drift is no problem at all.

Now, if the rains would slow for a bit so the river can come down, I'd be all set. We keep getting heavy dumps of rain. Just about the time things clear out from one deluge, we get another.

-Sean-