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KC9ECI
06-30-2012, 10:28 AM
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=mayflies_june232012

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/arx/Mayfly_Jun232012/June232012.gif
KC2UGV
06-30-2012, 10:33 AM
I saw another one of these a few years ago. Pretty frickin crazy.
N8YX
06-30-2012, 10:37 AM
Trout be bitin' there, gang...
NQ6U
06-30-2012, 10:40 AM
Trout be bitin' there, gang...

Yeah, but only if you have the right dry fly tied on the end of your leader. Trout tend to be picky under those circumstances.
KG4CGC
06-30-2012, 10:44 AM
Yeah, but only if you have the right dry fly tied on the end of your leader. Trout tend to be picky under those circumstances.

An old guy (no, even older than you) said he super glued those on to the hooks. The Mayflies that is.
ki4itv
06-30-2012, 10:44 AM
That's freakin crazy. Is it real??
NQ6U
06-30-2012, 11:10 AM
An old guy (no, even older than you) said he super glued those on to the hooks. The Mayflies that is.

I could see that working.
WØTKX
06-30-2012, 11:35 AM
Yes it's real. Try riding a motorcycle through a swarm like that. Yikes!

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/arx/Mayfly_Jun232012/IMG_0719.JPG
KC9ECI
06-30-2012, 12:02 PM
I was down in Trempealeau some years back about this time of the year for Catfish days when the mayfly hatch occurred. They were hanging in great globs off the street lamps. The ground under your feet crunched when you walked. The roads became slippery with guts and cars would slide through stop signs. My dad used to tell of La Crosse having such a hatch one year that they had to use snow plows to clear them off the bridges.
kb2vxa
06-30-2012, 12:46 PM
I witnessed the same thing in Motown back in '65 when the wind blew them off Lake Urine (as the locals pronounce it) into the city. It was evening and streetlights were on but you'd never know it, anything that glowed was covered in a thick sheet of them and you couldn't see through shop windows either. Crunch crunch squish squish, slipin' an' a slidin' peepin' an' a hidin', been told a long time ago. Don't go to town tonight, it's bound to take your life, there's a car comin' on the right.
N7YA
06-30-2012, 05:31 PM
Those folks in La Crosse are loving life right about now! Damn!
KC9ECI
06-30-2012, 05:41 PM
The hatch was last weekend, La Crosse is back to as abnormal as it usually is. We were downtown last evening, had some supper at Fat Sam's http://www.eatfatsams.com/ followed by a tasty cold German beer at The Bodega, http://www.bodegabrewpublax.com/ and then caught Men In Black 3 at the Rivoli http://www.rivoli.net/

Also had a good look around at 3 Rivers Outdoors http://www.threeriversoutdoors.com/
K7SGJ
06-30-2012, 05:43 PM
Yeah, but only if you have the right dry fly tied on the end of your leader. Trout tend to be picky under those circumstances.



The older I get, the more difficult it is to keep a dry fly.
kf0rt
06-30-2012, 10:56 PM
The hatch was last weekend, La Crosse is back to as abnormal as it usually is. We were downtown last evening, had some supper at Fat Sam's http://www.eatfatsams.com/ followed by a tasty cold German beer at The Bodega, http://www.bodegabrewpublax.com/ and then caught Men In Black 3 at the Rivoli http://www.rivoli.net/

Also had a good look around at 3 Rivers Outdoors http://www.threeriversoutdoors.com/


Geez man, all I got was a pizza.
KC9ECI
07-01-2012, 07:58 AM
I'd have been ok with pizza. http://www.rockyrococo.com is right across the street from the Bodega, but I would prefer http://www.pizzadoctors.net/ a couple blocks in the opposite direction from the Rivoli. In a pinch, I'd eat a Rivoli pizza and wash it down with some tap Guinness. It's an old theater, and a bit run down, but being able to have beer and pizza or a margarita and nachos etc during a movie makes up for that.
WV6Z
07-01-2012, 10:40 AM
Damn, now I really am hungry. :(
KC9ECI
07-01-2012, 11:14 AM
Damn, now I really am hungry. :(

Well ya retired old geezer if you ever get this far north, we'll have to have some beer and pizza.
kb2vxa
07-01-2012, 08:57 PM
Interesting, Rocky Rococo voiced by Phil Proctor was a recurring character in various Nick Danger (Third Eye) episodes in Firesign Theatre. That's what inspired Wayne Mosley and Roger Brown when they opened the first store in Madison, WI back in 1974.
suddenseer
07-02-2012, 07:05 AM
Interesting, Rocky Rococo voiced by Phil Proctor was a recurring character in various Nick Danger (Third Eye) episodes in Firesign Theatre. That's what inspired Wayne Mosley and Roger Brown when they opened the first store in Madison, WI back in 1974."Pizza for Braden" "I got a big gun chief, the girls like it when I wear a tight suit" "where's my springboard?"