Current Hatch in Alabama, Mayflies?

[BamaFan]

I saw this on my way home today. I only saw a few and thought it was a little late for a Mayfly hatch. Can anyone verify this is indeed a Mayfly?

[flflash]

Mayfly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly Looks the same to me.

I was out on a small lake last weekend once the sun got up good there where Blue Dragonfly's everywhere. The Bass started coming out of the water chaseing them all around me but I could'nt get a single bite on the normal poppers or streamers! Finaly tied on the only dragonfly I had and It Was On!
Who says Bass can't be selective.

[Plasticpirogue]

Certainly a mayfly; despite the name they hatch out 12 months out of the year. Looks like a Brown Drake, or could be a Stenonima, maybe a late March Brown, but looks too dark to be a Hexagenia Limbata. Most important to you would be to match the size first and then the color....fish don't read Latin.

[flflash]

Most important to you would be to match the size first and then the color....fish don't read Latin.

Agreed but you'll also want to pay attention to their action, sometimes a lil skitter and jiggle gets alot of attention.

[Elkybum]

Here in lower Alabama we had them heavy and strong back in late July and there is a pattern on youtube but anything on top of the water usually works. Find the nests hanging in trees and fish below it when theyre swarming.

[Peter E.]

Ye ol' willow fly. Hexagenia, the brown drake,and them fishey bugs, All the same and all may flies.

[flyfisher]

The other thing to remember is mayfly is a generic term for pretty much any fly that looks like the ones you posted.

I know i have been out before and had a caddis hatch go off that was so thick you were breathing them in and the fish were gorging themselves. Ironically enough it wasn't on top as i would have thought but they were going after the emergers. Once i figured that out, i caught more smallmouth in a 45 minute span than i ever had before. I was really glad i had my trout fishing fly box with me on that trip

[Oscarflytyer]

Ye ol' willow fly. Hexagenia, the brown drake,and them fishey bugs, All the same and all may flies.

Yep - willow fly. Have worn blisters on my hand fly fishing for bream when these bug sammiches are hatching! Prob the best fishing I have ever had!

[Doogie]

Mayfly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly Looks the same to me.

I was out on a small lake last weekend once the sun got up good there where Blue Dragonfly's everywhere. The Bass started coming out of the water chaseing them all around me but I could'nt get a single bite on the normal poppers or streamers! Finaly tied on the only dragonfly I had and It Was On!
Who says Bass can't be selective.

Happens a lot in Virginia. That's why you always keep at least a couple of these in the fly box.

[flflash]

Doogie we need to do a flyswap sometime, all the dragonflies I tie come out looking like they where just scrapped off the windsheild of a Mack truck