It's possible to catch trophy squaretails during the Hex Mayfly hatch. Credit: Courtesy of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife June and July’s strawberry season is eagerly awaited by us ...

The Hexagenia limbata mayfly is one of the largest of all American mayflies. It is nearly 2 inches long from head to tail, with gossamer wings that rise high above the fly's body. In its nymphal stage ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- Even the dreadfully novice fly angler has a chance at landing a jaw-dropping brown trout for about 10 days of June on the Straight River. “You don't have to be skilled at all to ...

The Green Drake: when it shows itself on the surface of a trout pond late in the afternoon, its presence is for the trout angler, a moment of utter delight. It’s a trout bum’s rapture. The Hex hatch, ...

What Leighton Wass wanted to do was find a book about fly fishing with the Hexagenia mayfly hatch. What he ended up doing was writing the book himself. “I wanted a book that focused on the Hex Hatch, ...

Evening has enveloped Wisconsin’s Brule River, and now the fishing has become mostly an exercise in listening. From just downstream come the liquid slurps that indicate trout are feeding. “That’s a ...

Among fly fishers, the words are spoken with a kind of reverence."The Hex hatch."Duluth fly-fisher Dave Zentner, 80, has been chasing the hatch for more than 50 years on rivers like Wisconsin's famed ...

A few of the big yellow mayflies began to show, struggling at the surface of the dark water then, drying their wings, breaking free and flying. I switched to a graphite rod on which I had tied a 3X ...