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Summer Hatch Chart:

Yellow Sally Stoneflies (Perlodidae)
Emergence: all summer
Suggested patterns: #18 Mercer’s Light Micro Stone, #14-#18 yellow Mr. Rubberlegs, #14-#16 Beadhead Sparkle Prince, #16-#18 Lowe’s Little Yellow Stone, #14-#18 yellow Stimulator, #14-#16 Rollin’ Stone Yellow Sallie,#16 Wilcox’s Foam Sally, #16 Berrett’s Hairy Yellow Sally

Midges (Diptera)
Emergence
: all winter
Suggested patterns
: #22-#24 WD-40s in chocolate and olive; #24 Black Beauty, #22-#24 Desert Storm, #22 Barr’s Pure Midge Larva, #22 Jujubee Midge, #20 Biot Midge Emerger, #20-24 Cream Midge, Parachute Black Midge or Parachute Cream Midge

Light Cahills (Stenacron interpunctatum)
Emergence: all summer
Suggested patterns:  #12-#16 Gold-Ribbed Hare’s Ear, #14-#16 Parachute Light Cahill, #14-#16 Light Cahill dry, #12-#14 Rusty Spinner

Net-spinning Caddis (Hydropsyche, Ceratopsyche)
Emergence: all summer, esp. mornings
Suggested patterns:  #16-#20 Olive Crawling Caddis, #16 tan Fox’s Caddis Poopah, #14-#16 Bird’s Nest, #16 Red Fox Squirrel Nymph, #16 Cream Caddis Pupa,  #14-#16 tan or brown Elk Hair Caddis, #16 tan Puterbaugh’s Foam Caddis

Sulphurs (Ephemerella dorothea)
Emergence: June, esp. at dusk                                 
Suggested patterns: #18 Gold-Ribbed Hare’s Ear, #18 Split Case PMD nymph, #18 yellow Soft Hackle, #16 Daniel’s Klink Sulphur Emerger, #16 D&D Cripple Sulphur, #18 P.M.D. Thorax, #18 Parachute Sulphur, #18 Sulphur Comparadu

Tricos (Tricorythodes sp.)
Emergence: July through August, early morning
Suggested patterns: #22-#24 Black Sprout Midge, #22 Parachute Trico, #24 Olive RS2 Emerger, #22-#26 Black Polywing Spinner

Giant Golden Stones (Perlidae sp.)
Emergence: June, sporadically thereafter through August
Suggested patterns: #12 Tungsten Golden Stone, #10 Yellow Lab Trout Retriever, #8 Golden Karnopp’s Keystone, #8 Golden Stone dry, #6 Stimulator Goldenstone

Terrestrials (Grasshoppers, Ants, Beetles, Jassids, etc.)
Emergence: all summer
Suggested patterns: #16 Hopper Parachute, #10 Monster Beetle, #18 Delektable Flying Ant, #16 Parachute Kicking Hopper, #14 Streambank Hopper, #18 Hi-Vis Foam Beetle, #12 Red-Legged Hopper, #18-#20 Parachute Ant

Gray Winged Yellow Quill (Epeorus vitreus)
Emergence: June
Suggested patterns: #14-#16 Red Fox Squirrel Nymph, #16 orange Soft Hackle Thorax Bead, #14-#16 Pink Cahill, #12-#14 Rusty Quill Body Spinner

Blue-winged Olives (Baetidae & Drunella sp.)
Emergence: all summer, esp. cloudy or rainy days
Suggested patterns: #18 Salyer’s Little Olive Nymph, #18-#22 Killer Mayfly Nymph, #18-#22 Barr’s BWO Emerger, #20-#22 Hi-Vis B.W.O. Parachute, #20 Lawson’s Thorax Baetis, #20-#22 Parachute Baetis, #18-#20 Extended Body BWO

Little Black Caddis (Glossosoma sp.)
Emergence: all summer, particularly mornings
Suggested patterns: #18 Buckskin Caddis, #18-#20 black Fox’s Caddis Poopah, #18-#20 black Elk Hair Caddis, #18-#20 Henryville Special

Free-living Caddis (Rhyacophila)
Emergence: all summer
Suggested patterns:  #14-#16  Olive Caddis Larva, #14-#16 Electric Rock Worm, #14 Fox’s Green Springtime Poopah, #14-#16 Green Deep Sparkle Pupa, #14-#16 olive Elk Hair Caddis, #14-#16 olive X-Caddis

Leadwinged Coachman (Isonychia bicolor)
Emergence: all summer
Suggested patterns: #12 Parachute Adams, #12-#14 Zug Bug, #14 Soft-Hackle Pheasant Tail, #14 Rusty Quill Bodied Spinner

Green Drake (Ephemera guttulata)
Emergence: early June, at dusk
Suggested patterns:  #8-#10 olive Woolly Bugger, #10-#12 Rothrock Wiggle Nymph, #10-#12 Green Drake Parachute, #8-#10 White Wulff, #10 Coffin Fly Spinner

Yellow Drake (Ephemera varia)
Emergence: June, at dusk
Suggested patterns:  #10-#12 Rothrock Wiggle Nymph, #12 Parachute Light Cahill

 

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