Clarks Creek FFO Dauphin county 5/23/11

I have good success on CC with a BH Green Weenie and a #16 - #18 LaFontaine Emergent Pupa.
 
I'm with Flyers18, I was there with Fred to witness the hatch last year. My guess is Dark Green Drake. Couldn't find any pics of one, but fits description, including size (huge), timing of hatch, and known/rumored to hatch on the stream.
 
Sorry guys it is definitely a dun I caught it as it was hatching and the date was Sunday of last years jam we stopped at Clarks on the way back home from the jam . Everything about it to me said Green Drake except that it was darker plus I seen quit a few of the regular Green Drake at the jam last year so I'm going with dark Green Drake .
 

Here is a dark green drake. Everything looks right. I stand corrected. I seem to remember seeing another pic of this fly that looked nothing like this but hey my memories not always the best either.

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Though I still think a Hex imitation would work just fine for this fly ;-)
SIZE, COLOR PROFILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Clarks does have a brown drake hatch!

PaulG
 
Frederick and afishinado it IS a dark green drake u guys are right on your identification. I understand some guys that aren't all gung ho about learning and identifying species of insects but this is something I get involved with very much and is part of my flyfishing. I understand you only need color and profile like salvo said and salvo it used to be in the class Hexigenia but was recently changed to Litobranchia. I've fished the Delaware for about 20 yrs. so thats what got me into insect identification because there are so many species on that river so I took a heavy interest in that. Like I said I don't like coming off like I know everything but when guys have no clue what they are saying I am just trying to help out. The other strange hatch you guys are talking about on Clarks is Siphloplecton basale which is called the Great Speckled Olive Dun. It hatches around the end of april begining of may. Another simple but good book for identifying purposes is Meck and Weamers Pennsylvania Hatches.
 
I spoke with a member at a TU meeting about Greg Hoover's belief these flies were dark olive drakes. When I looked in my Schwiebert book he also describes this fly existing in some Pa waters. Schweibert listed as a hexagenia subspecies. After reading the above posts it looks like the genus may have been reclassified. Question is does this form also have a coffin fly stage for the spinners? Several years ago I witnessed a bunch of coffin flies below the shooting range.
 
albud1962 wrote:
After reading the above posts it looks like the genus may have been reclassified. Question is does this form also have a coffin fly stage for the spinners? Several years ago I witnessed a bunch of coffin flies below the shooting range.
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If we ever get a few days without complete weather madness i'll make it a point to get out there to take tons of picts and fish on Clarks.... :roll: 😢
 
I just got back. Most enjoyable trip this year so far. Lots of bugs for Clarks.
Thank you Lord. I needed that.
 
Fished Clarks above the dam a few fish were coming up but not enough to switch from nymphing caught 7 and easily missed that many
 
When do you guys start fishing foam terrestrials on Clarks? I fished above the dam on Sunday and all fish came on greenie weenies. I
 
Top water action on Clarks is very erratic this year and was very poor on June 1 for me and other guys I talked to. Sub-surface was much better.

One factor is water is way too warm. It was 69 degrees which is highest reading I ever got. Clarks, being a tail-water of sorts, is opposite from most streams. Normally in heat waves the water is lo but cold from bottom release. But in current heat wave the water is hi and coming over top of dam so its all the hot water from the lake surface. Other streams have fared better lately cause the high water mitigates the temp spike but Clarks is getting some unusual thermal overload. Luckily the air temps are cooling and the water receding so should see it get back to being cold water bottom release.
 

Get your terrestrial box out now!

PaulG
 
Angled wrote:
Top water action on Clarks is very erratic this year and was very poor on June 1 for me and other guys I talked to. Sub-surface was much better.

One factor is water is way too warm. It was 69 degrees which is highest reading I ever got. Clarks, being a tail-water of sorts, is opposite from most streams. Normally in heat waves the water is lo but cold from bottom release. But in current heat wave the water is hi and coming over top of dam so its all the hot water from the lake surface. Other streams have fared better lately cause the high water mitigates the temp spike but Clarks is getting some unusual thermal overload. Luckily the air temps are cooling and the water receding so should see it get back to being cold water bottom release.
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Thanks. Good info to know.
I like terrestrials from April till November.
 
Thanks Angled for that info. I never really thought about the overflow causing the temps to go up on Clarks. I just know in the dead of summer Clarks is too cold for me to wet wade. BTW I fished a long section on Sunday morning from the AT downstream and the flood has really changed up the good spots and moved out alot of the log jams.
 
@Sipe, isn't a green weenie considered a terrestrial if fished without any weight or bead head?
 
I wet waded just a few days ago and lasted several hours. Didn't catch much in two different places, but I did catch SOME! What really surprised me was that the Royal Wulff was my bsst fly. Nymphs, terrestrials... they hardly got more than a few bites all day!
 
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