Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing

enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Welcome to the Orvis fly fishing guide podcast. This week we've got a listener request on a little bit more advanced topic so bear with me it's not that advanced

but it's very timely this time of year. It's about a very important hatch that occurs throughout the country and

you may have heard of this it's called the Trico hatch now Trico is the term

fishermen use for these mayflies and it's a shortened version of the

genus of these mayflies which is trico or authorities.

There are various species that hatch throughout the country which I can't remember and I can't pronounce.

And I don't, be honest with you, I don't worry much about.

Most of the various species of trachos are quite similar,

whether you're fishing in Maine or fishing in California or Montana so I think

you can just leave it at Trico and fish happily along.

So there's some good news and bad news with the tricho hatch. The good news is trout feed very heavily on these flies and

they're usually not very spooky at all. They're so preoccupied with feeding that you can get quite close to

them and they're easy to see. You can spot them in the water because they're feeding on the

surface. Now the bad news is the flies are tiny, they're quite tiny, but before you get scared away, bear with me because this can be the very best hatch of the season and even if you're a novice you can still have fun

fishing a trico hatch there are ways to approach it that make it relatively easy

so don't switch off your iPod just because the flies I'm talking about are anywhere from a size 22 to a 26.

So how do you find these Tricos?

Well, the nymphs live in trout streams with a silty bottom and the whole stream doesn't have to be

silty but if there's if your trout stream has pools that alternate between

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