The Contented Angler
Hatch Pool
"In the recollection of the trout fisherman it is
always Spring. The Blackbird sings of a May
morning.  The little trout jump in the riffles,
and the german brown comes surely to the fly
on the evening rise."
R. Palmer Baker
Insect
 Size
 Water
temp
 Date
Early Stonefly
 12 - 18
 40
 Feb. 1
BWO
 14 - 20
   March 1
Grannom
 14 - 16
 45 - 60
 April 22
Blue Quill
 16 - 18
 45 - 60
 April 12
Green Caddis
 10 - 16
 45 - 70
 May 8
Blue Quill
 16 - 18
   April 12
Quill Gordon
 12 - 14
 50 - 60
 April 12
Hendrickson
 12 - 14
 45 - 60
 April 20
Little Green
Stone
 16 - 18
 50 - 65
 June 5
Golden Stone
 6 - 10
 45 - 60
 June 25
Yellow Sally
 14 - 16
 45 - 65
 June 5 - Oct.
Isonychia
 12
 50 - 60
 May 25
Black Dancer
 16 - 18
 50 - 70
 April 18
Blue Quill
 16 - 18
 45 - 65
 April 12  June 25
Spotted Sedge
 14 - 18
 45 - 70
 May 18
Little Sister
Sedge
 16 - 20
 45 - 70
 June - Aug.
Sulphur Rotunda
 #14
 55 - 65
 May 5
BWO
 12 - 16
 55 - 70
 May 25
Insect
 Size
 Water
Temp
 Date
Dk. Green Drake
 6
 55 - 70
 May 25
March Brown
 10 - 12
 55 - 70
 May 20
BWO
 20 - 26
 55 - 65
 June 1
Long horn sedge
 12 - 16
 60 - 70
 Late June -
Aug
Brown Drake
 8 - 10
 60 - 70
 May 25
Sulphur dorothea
 16 - 18
 60 - 65
 May 25
Yellow Quill
 12 - 18
 60 - 70
  
Smokey Wing
Sedge
 10 - 18
 60 - 70
  
Cream Cahill
 12 - 14
   June 12
Lt. Cahill
 10 - 14
 60 - 70
 June 1
Hex
 6
 60 - 70
 Aug. 15
Green Drake
 8 - 10
 65 - 70
 May 25
Golden Drake
 8 - 10
 65 - 70
 June 25
Blue Quill
 #18
 65 - 70
 July 1
Yellow Drake
 8 - 10
 65 - 70
 June 12
Trico
 22 - 28
 65 - 70
 July 1
White Fly
 12 - 16
 70
 Aug 12
Dot Wing Sedge
 12 - 18
 65
 Sept 15
Isonychia
 12 - 14
 65
 Sept1
Insect
 Size
 Date
Baetis Tricaudatus
 16 - 20
 April 1
Accentrella Carolina
 20
 May 1
Drunella Cornuta
 14
 May 25
Drunella Longicomus
 16
 May 25
Baetis Levitans
 20
 June 5
Drunella Simplex
 18 - 20
 June15
Drunella Lata
 16
 June 15
Accentrella Carolina
 20
 Sept 15
The many Mayflies that we call "Blue Winged Olives"
should provide year-round fishing. Here's a convenient
chart. The Latin names may have changed by now
depending on whether someone wanted a bug named
after them.
The Contented Angler
147 jefferson Avenue
Lower Burrell, PA. 15068
724-337-0437
EMAIL
Many times you will see sz. 8 - 10 hook for the drakes. Size
8 or 10 what? If you use a size 8 or 10 dry fly hook you will
end up with a fly about half the size that you need tied on a
very heavy hook. The author that does this doesn't really
know what size you need.  He just goes by what has been
written for years. A proper drake will be tied extended body
style or on a 3X or 4Xl hook.
Since what most do today doesn't have anything to do with hatches,  I contemplated
whether or not I would remove the Hatch Chart.  I decided to leave it as a reminder of
how it once was and how it still is for those who care about the casting and  the
presentation.
There was no competition and you hoped that your companion caught more fish than
you did.  Things moved slowly and you had time to appreciate your surroundings.