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🗓️ 29 May 2008
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The best hatch you may ever encounter is not a hatch at all. When mayflies return to a river to lay their eggs, it may be the best opportunity to catch your biggest trout on a dry fly.
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0:00.0 | 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. |
0:11.5 | Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing |
0:14.7 | enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer. |
0:17.0 | Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This week we're going to talk about something |
0:21.5 | that's a little more advanced. |
0:24.8 | Did you know that the best hatch you ever encounter is probably not a hatch at all? |
0:31.7 | What I'm referring to is something that's called a spinner fall and this is |
0:35.6 | when mayflies return to a river to lay their eggs and it is the time when it's possible to catch the biggest trout of the season on |
0:48.8 | a dry fly. |
0:49.8 | Let me give you a little background on a Mayfly life cycle so you can understand what we're talking about. |
0:55.2 | Mayflies live underwater for just about 12 months. |
1:00.3 | Then the nymphs rise to the surface they split their skin and a an immature |
1:06.5 | adult emerges from the skin it's a winged adult but it's actually not a true |
1:12.2 | adult because they're not they're not sexually mature yet. |
1:16.1 | This is called a done or a subimago, and the done is kind of an intermediate adult stage. |
1:24.6 | And this is what people refer to when they talk about a hatch. |
1:27.9 | The flies are hatching from the bottom of the river. |
1:30.2 | The fish rise to them. |
1:31.6 | You catch fish on dry flies, but often the fish respond to a nymph or |
1:35.8 | in a merger just below the surface because most of the bugs are under the surface and |
1:40.6 | then once they hit the surface they flap their wings a couple times |
1:43.2 | and flutter and fly away. So this is what's called a hatch and most of our fly |
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