Hex Fishing Michigan

[dogtown]

Night fishing in Northern Michigan and picked the right week as the hex fishing was out of this world.
Approximately 7 Browns over 18" were caught, here is a small sampling of some of the fish caught although I am waiting on more pictures that were taken on other cameras.



Above shot is a 19.5" Buttery Brown I caught to start the trip out right.



A 20" Brown caught after another brown of 18" jumped out of my hands just before the picture was taken.



Again, Josh's Brown - a fish that we thought would be the record of the trip.



The above fish was caught by a close friend who had never caught a Brown over 18" and this fish pushed 24.5".
The above fish was caught last night. We got to the river at about 5 PM knowing full well we would not be fishing for about 4 hours and just relaxed. A thunderstorm narrowly missed us and we thought we were in the clear. I walk out into the river behind us and nothing but dark clouds rolling in. Of course 20 minutes later it is a pouring rain, we all pack up after sitting in it for 30 minutes and I begin my 3 hour drive home. 10 minutes into my drive it stops and I turn around and head back to the river and get geared up again. My buddy shows up as well again and we shake hands again and head out. The hatch starts immediately and I see a fish that I believe was approximately 28" sucking down Hex duns. After 15 minutes of tossing line at him he takes and immediately takes me into a log jam 20 yards down stream and my line shoots back in a pile at my face. Other fish had been rising although they were smaller so I tell my friend take my spot and he hooks into the fish you see above all of 2 feet long and with my small trout net and his 5 weight superfine we manage to land him. At this point it is almost midnight and I have a 3 hour drive home ahead of me.

Probably the best fishing I have ever witnessed.

I plan to attempt a repeat next year.

PS - I just missed the FAOL'ers at the fish in as I had to come home friday night. Hopefully they are in to them as well as I was about 30 minutes from Grayling.

[ausable_ny]

Those are great fish....congrats on a job well done!!!!!

Ken

[JohnScott]

Nice fish, nice pics, nice smiles.

[Wild One]

Those are nice fish man!

Love em all but the 3rd one down looks like the brownie has big ole smile on his face.

Very nice!

[dogtown]

Thanks all. When is the fish in officially over? I will be interested to hear some more reports of hex from up that way.

[dogtown]

Now that some of you fish in people are back in town... Did you get into the hex hatch at all on the Ausable? I would be interested in a report if you have time.

[rainbowchaser]

'the hatch seemed to be over on the Au Sable. Jim Flamming and I went over to the Manistee last night where we saw both duns and spinners on the water but only a few small fish rising. That was probably my fault as my noisy wading dog insisted on joining me in the water. I didn't want to carry her bulky tie out chain through the woods in the dark and had been warned not to leave her tied out unattended in that area because of coyotes.

[dogtown]

Rainbow Chaser,

Your from Nunica! I am up that way all the time, I work for Ottawa County environmental health.

Dogtown.