Please ID This Bug!

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  • Jun 19, 2010 at 5:15 pm #4985
    mickey brown
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    At a local neighborhood pond for the last two summers we have been seeing these big yellow mayflies just before dark.  The pond is full of 12 inch bass and they hammer these bugs (23 fish in 25 mins last one nigh last summer).  I have tied up an imitation but honestly any big hairy leggy bug works. What is this?

    Jun 19, 2010 at 5:20 pm #43611
    dusty montgomery
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    Is it a Hexagenia? We get them here too, and they are huge.

    D.

    Jun 19, 2010 at 5:57 pm #43612
    anonymous
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    Golden Drakes. We get them here on the Yough, they pull out of their nymphal shuck through slow, deep water and the fish wait for them just as they break through the film.

    The Hexes I have seen on Lake Erie and in MI are WAY bigger than that.

    Jun 19, 2010 at 6:55 pm #43613
    Avatar photoRoy Conley
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    I would also vote for Golden Drakes.

    Jun 20, 2010 at 1:03 am #43614
    Avatar photoColin M.
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    a hex would be a bit darker in color than that…most likely what the other gents said….

    Jun 21, 2010 at 5:08 am #43615
    Tim Schulz
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    Hex have more of a drake-style body:

    Jun 21, 2010 at 3:41 pm #43616
    mickey brown
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    Thanks guys!

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