Anyone got a good hex dun pattern?
There is the
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw/4298fotw.html:549ba]Compara Hex[/url:549ba] by Clive Schaupmeyer.
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw/61598fotw.html:549ba]Robert’s Drake[/url:549ba] by Clarence Roberts.
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/072902fotw.html:549ba]Hexagenia & Drake Extended Body Mayflies[/url:549ba] by Jack Pangburn.
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/040703fotw.html:549ba]Two Feather May (Extended Body May Fly)[/url:549ba] by Clyde W. Watson.
Any of the above Fly Patterns can be adapted to a Hexagenia (Hex Dun) Dry Fly. ~Parnelli
and Kelly Gallop did his Troutsman Hex
harry mason
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For reasons I do not pretend to understand, my most productive hex pattern in Maine has been the black Wulff in sizes 10 and 8. This is all black (tail, body, wings, hackle). I have fished it in tandem with many other more realistic (to me, at least) patterns and the Wulff always is best.
As it is seen from below the surface looking up at night it seems most reasonable as all flies will look black at that time.
You want to have some flight bugs also (spinners)because they come first in Michigan. Spinners at 10:30 pm hacthers(duns) 11:30 to 3 am