Fly Fishing The HEX Hatch
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Fly Fishing The HEX Hatch
#1I just finished reading a new book by Leighton Wass (Fly Fishing The Hex Hatch) and founds it a great read. Leighton grew up in Maine and has lived 50 years in Vermont and has chased the HEX hatch his whole adult life. His profession was a science teacher which assisted with identifying bugs and their evolution. He shares many of his secret fishing places in VT/ME/NH; provides when the hatch occurs and what flies to use. Along with the technical side of the book Leighton shares his life experiences with humor as only a Mainer could. -tomVT
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Re: Fly Fishing The HEX Hatch
#4Here's a roundup of the hex hatch.
1. Find the slow, silty water in your river. Arrive around 8:30 pm.
2. Watch the sunset, while all the mosquitoes on the planet make a feast of your epiduris.
3. Wait until it's pitch black; you will then begin to hear the first gobbling rises of large trout.
4. Aim your shuttlecock of a trout fly toward the sound you're hearing. Do it again and again.
5. After a dozen minutes, the trout will stop rising.
6. Go home with your skin a fester of mosquito bites.
7. Repeat the next day and the next. Swear off the hex hach following a week of this misery.
1. Find the slow, silty water in your river. Arrive around 8:30 pm.
2. Watch the sunset, while all the mosquitoes on the planet make a feast of your epiduris.
3. Wait until it's pitch black; you will then begin to hear the first gobbling rises of large trout.
4. Aim your shuttlecock of a trout fly toward the sound you're hearing. Do it again and again.
5. After a dozen minutes, the trout will stop rising.
6. Go home with your skin a fester of mosquito bites.
7. Repeat the next day and the next. Swear off the hex hach following a week of this misery.