The green drake mayfly hatch is one of many reasons Basalt and the Roaring Fork Valley is considered Mecca for fly fishers around the world. We (plus the birds and fish) enjoy this hatch from late ...

Caddis hatches will keep you busy until the drakes start going, although most seasoned locals prefer to wait for the drake hatch versus disturbing the water fishing caddis before the hatch ensues.

Anglers who know a lot more about entomology than I do say that most of us misname the Hex, calling it a Green Drake, as in, 'Hey, Joe — you really missed it.

Each year fly fishing enthusiasts around the country flock to Pennsylvania's Penns Creek to try to land a big trout during the Green Drake hatch.

So whether your Green Drake is a Hexagenia limbata or an Ephemera guttulala, the trout don’t seem to care. And that’s what counts. V. Paul Reynolds is editor of the Northwoods Sporting Journal.