Past HTU president, Cliff Behrens picked our fly of the month. Cliff is the kind of gentleman fly fisher who prefers to fish for trout with a dry fly and a vintage bamboo rod. Of course he would pick the Hendrickson.
In spring, there is one particular mayfly whose presence in the air gets fishermen to patch their waders. It is known as the Hendrickson, Ephemerella subvaria, and it makes its metamorphosis into adulthood just at the time that trout are beginning to feed aggressively and flyfishermen are desperate for any excuse to stand in a river.
The reason the fishermen are excited is that, like many aquatic insects, Hendricksons synchronize their emergence such that every afternoon for a few weeks, rivers will be full of Hendrickson nymphs dislodging themselves from the rocks on the river bottom and drifting to the surface. This mob-scene emergence is triggered when the water temperature reaches 52-55 degrees Fahrenheit and stays there for a few days.
Please tie up 10 Hendricksons , any stage or style, and bring them to the March Chapter meeting.