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when do mayflies and caddis flies hatch?
I just went fishing today, caught 11 trout on a spin rod but on my fly rod i got nothing with a dry fly. Why is this? Is it because there is nothing hatching or falling into the water? BTW i live in Bridgewater NJ
largeframe i only kept 4 of them i'm still aloud to catch and release after that
A previous answer handled your question pretty well. There are hatches of all kinds at virtually all times of the year and you must learn these hatches if you are to fish them well. You should also be able to identify various insects and be skilled at matching them with artificials. In very general terms, mayflies hatch in spring and caddisflies hatch in late summer and autumn. However, there are plenty of autumn mayflies and spring caddisflies, along with other crazy hatches. For example, on the rivers and streams where I live, there is a small black winter stonefly that hatches in the dead of winter -- it hatches out of the near-freezing water and can be seen walking around on the snow.
Other aquatic insects, such as stoneflies, salmonflies, damselflies, and midges are also of interest to the fly angler. Your job is to find hatch tables that help you know when various hatches are likely to occur throughout the year and according to the waterways you plan to fish. Be aware that differences from stream to stream and lake to lake can be dramatic. For example, one river about 20 minutes from my house has an exciting salmonfly hatch (should be coming up at the end of this month). These insects can be 3 inches long and have vivid orange and blue coloration. You imitate them with big foamy, fuzzy, rubber-legged flies, and it's common to see 10-inch fish smashing artificial flies nearly a third their total length. However, at another river, this one only 10 minutes from my house, there is no salmon fly hatch, and trying those big salmonfly imitations would likely meet with no success.
What's more, fly anglers often miss the point of a hatch (I'm including myself here) -- we see the myriad insects blizzarding in the air and assume that the best way to fish the hatch is a dry fly, when actually the fish are feeding more voraciously on emerging larva just beneath the surface rather than the adult stage skittering above the water. While fishing a dry imitation during a blizzard hatch will probably result in fish caught, casting an emerger pattern or wet fly might catch even more fish.
Finally, the hard thing to hear is that you seem to think that the fish you caught on your spin rod were not available to catch with your flyrod. Nothing could be further from the truth -- if you were fishing jigs, spinners, or spoons (something imitating darting forage like minnows or polywogs), you could have caught those fish on your flyrod, too, with streamers, poppers, and similar flies. If there is no insect hatch on a particular day, you can always try imitating the other things trout feed on, like insect larva, downed insects, fish eggs, worms, shrimp, leeches, minnows, sculpin, polywogs, etc. etc. There is nothing that I know of that trout eat that cannot be imitated with a fly.
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