I went fishing yesterday on a warmwater lake and when I got there the fish were breaking the surface. I started looking for what they were going after and found quite a few small brown mayflies flying near the surface of the water. I watched them for a while and none of them were actually landing on the water. Never the less I started out with a dry fly that looked very very close to the size and color of the mayflies that I was seeing. After 30 minutes of putting the fly right on the spot where I saw them breaking the surface I had no luck. So I thought they may be emerging so I tried 3 different nymphs including one that would stay just under the surface and still no luck. Finally I gave up trying to match the hatch and went with a olive bugger and started catching sandbass. Go figure!!

This isn't the first time this has happened. Does matching the hatch only work on trout? It seems to work on sunfish well but I've never had much results when targeting bass.