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beer and nuts
06-24-2002, 09:08 AM
The hex are here. Saturday night while I was fishing Manistee tourney the HEX arrived for my dad. A nice hatch at about 10:40, he landed his biggest fish ever on his first cast of the night, a huge 24 incher. He has landed some other 23-24 incher before but he said this one was a monster with a huge head and girth like he has never seen. Biggest fish he has ever seen caught out of the river. Quick measurement and it was released! His friend from downstate also landed a 19.5 incher. No other fish as it was over fairly quickly.

Got home and went out witha couple buddies and hit a blanket hatch of hex last night. Had some real dandies feeding but way to many flies on the water, I landed a nice 17 incher, dad landed another 18 incher and two friends caught a couple 13-14 inchers. Flies were still coming down but feeding was non-existant. Packed it in at 11:30.

Will be out tonight again.




StreamAddict
06-24-2002, 09:52 AM
Exciting post. I haven't yet experienced the Hex yet..

I'll be up in Brevort (UP) mid-July.. I'm hoping I get to catch a Hex hatch there...
& <---Keeping my fingers crossed. ;)

binkley
06-24-2002, 10:16 AM
Great post! Glad to see that you did well. Did it rain up there a lot this weekend? Plan on making the trip up from Midland a couple of nights this week. Maybe tonight. Can hardly wait.

later

WEEZER
06-24-2002, 03:19 PM
I'll be up there around 6pm tonight.. I doubt I'll see hex where I'm going but the drakes should be good.
So Beer and nuts, was it you that I saw checking out the canoe access points above chase on thursday night? Saw one red and white truck looking for hex at about 11:30ish.

binkley
06-24-2002, 03:28 PM
Weezer,

Good luck tonight. I'll probably get up there at around 7:30. Let me know how you do.

later

beer and nuts
06-24-2002, 03:36 PM
Sorry Weezer, not me. My dad owns 1900 feet of frontage and I live just a couple hundred yards from his house. So we keep an eye on the river. One thing you won't see us doing is waiting for the midnight plus hatches, if the bugs aren't in the air by 11:00, its time for bed!:) SHOULD be decent tonight, good luck!