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Name that Bug
What bug is this? Where did I find it? And what do you think is the single best hatch event in America? (Hint: You're looking at a real contender.)
Deeter
It looks like a mayfly, quite a few are found around the Great Lakes. These little bastards hatched during the two weeks before we went to Canada last year and the fishing was not as great as it was trips before. Catching 60 walleye a day is not nearly as fun as catching 130-150 per day.
Posted by: Goose | November 06, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Looks like a mayfly to me.
Posted by: Horace | November 06, 2008 at 01:27 PM
i'd say mayfly too, and did you find it on top of a cooler?
Posted by: cwels | November 06, 2008 at 01:37 PM
Taxonomically speaking, I believe that's an example of Uglyous Sumbitchous, although around here it gets the layman's term "mayfly."
But I'm a bug generalist so I may be wrong...
Posted by: Mr. Creosote | November 06, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Drunella sp. "Green Drake", Frying Pan, Never paid much attention to hatch events because the best one is the hatch happening closest to you. (translation) I am too broke to travel to well known hatches.
Posted by: Shane | November 06, 2008 at 01:58 PM
Green Drake, Frying Pan, Mothers Day
Posted by: Shane | November 06, 2008 at 02:00 PM
bikini hatch, the madison.
Posted by: | November 06, 2008 at 02:12 PM
Hexagenia limbata.
When I was a kid, the hatch was referred to as the "caddis hatch" throughout N. Michigan; now it's more appropriately called the Hex hatch.
I've always maintained that fishing the Hex hatch on the best of N. Michigan's blue ribbon trout streams is one of our sport's greatest thrills.
Posted by: Woodstock | November 06, 2008 at 02:21 PM
hexagenia limbata
Posted by: Whahoo68 | November 06, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Hexagenia Limbata?
Posted by: ninja | November 06, 2008 at 02:23 PM
The background to the bug in question is definitely a boat deck, mid 80s or newer by the square raised pattern and bright white color gelcoat. I' guessing a pursuit 22-24 footer with twin 150s hanging on for dear life in the great lakes.
The bug has been pegged, but the hazards to vehicles were not yet mentioned. They come out in clouds at night and fall to the ground below the streetlights creating very dangerous slippery wet piles for unsuspecting drivers or cyclists...
Posted by: Jon | November 06, 2008 at 04:54 PM
man, that's one weird looking mosquito...
Posted by: joey | November 06, 2008 at 04:57 PM
Hexagenia, the guy from MI got it.
Posted by: Mel Haag | November 06, 2008 at 05:03 PM
In Oklahoma we call all bugs that look remotely like that "mayflies." We're not particular down here...
Posted by: Chad Love | November 06, 2008 at 05:42 PM
may fly? is that like a june bug?
Posted by: joey | November 06, 2008 at 05:59 PM
Its a fish Fly, Ask anyone around Lake St Clair
Posted by: Pete Wyzykowski | November 06, 2008 at 06:05 PM
To be more specific and take a guess, Mahogany Dun?
Posted by: Evan V | November 06, 2008 at 06:08 PM
uh,I'd like to phone a friend
Posted by: fly fish chick | November 06, 2008 at 06:39 PM
Green Drake, Skaneateles Lake, June, Central New York
Posted by: Fishing Jones | November 08, 2008 at 10:36 AM
This looks like a mayfly that hatch along the great river road along the Mississippi River and hatch in swarms large enough that they end up greasing the roadway.
Posted by: | November 11, 2008 at 10:53 PM