Little Early for size 20 and 7X but

[Pauper Piscator]

Couple browns this morning before work at a UDL near Worcester. GIN clear, low, #20 CDC "Blackfly" and 7x. Dry fly action. Two nice browns around 10-12. Loooooonnnngg drift. Caaaaaareful look. Slooooowwwww confident take. Fish on! Just like in the books. Nice.

What am I gonna do wiht all these #8 Wooley buggers?? Its not even April??

[SamRiley]

Some kind of hatch happened at Walden on Monday. No clue what, I'm just learning these bugs. VERY small, black body and white wings. Nothing I have is anywhere near small enough and if it were I would not have been able to tie it on :confused: No fish rising that I saw.

[teflon_jones]

There's a ton of mayfly hatches going on right now with this warm weather, but fish aren't hitting on the surface of ponds/lakes yet. Just too cold. Drop a small nymph down towards the bottom and you'll get something though.

[BobD]

Sam, sounds like a midge hatch to me. Try using a Griffins Knat imitates a cluster of midges and easy to see.

[bdowning]

Seeing a lot of midge hatches in Central Mass now. Like Teflon said though, most of them aren't hitting the water surface yet. A couple more days like today though and they will. Think size 24 and smaller on a tippet to match.

Meanwhile nymphs work ok, if you can keep the bluegills from getting to them first ;) .

-bd

[Pauper Piscator]

of CDC adn black thread. That is IT.

They are eating black flies. The kind that bitecha.

[Soundking]

Sam, a size 20 brassie will take fish when they're on the midges too. Back in the day float-tubing pleasant pond, that's all I would fish.