Depot Town - Ypsilanti, MI - Hex and Ephoron on the Horizon

I paid a visit to Depot Town yesterday to attend a fly-fishing seminar at Shultz Outfitters. It was a nice evening in the Riverside Park and at a Depot Town eatery for a quick burger. I even got to witness one of Shultz's guides doing some Spey Casting before the seminar began.

Here is what Shultzy was talking about that was so interesting to me:

"Hex & Ephoron on the Horizon. While the bugs haven't appeared yet, the Hex should be popping on the Huron any day now, followed shortly after by the Ephoron (White Fly) hatch. These often blizzard hatches are a great way to experience "up north" Hex fishing without the three hour drive! Smallmouth from Dexter to Ann Arbor will be looking up and feeding eagerly, making for some of the best topwater fishing of the year."

The bugs that Shultzy was mainly talking about at the seminar were those which we have in abundance in the "Upper Huron" (from Barton Pond to Portage Lake Dam)- the Hexagenia Recurvata and the Ephoron Leukon. He also mentioned the Isonychia hatch and the Caddis hatch. Huron River Smallmouth love eating these insects, so I say bring on the bugs!