May flies

  • clarence_chapman
    Hastings, MN Lake Isabel activist
    Posts: 1345
    July 15, 2011 at 10:33 am #1273053

    Biggest swarm of May flies I hhave everseen hoovering over Lake Isabel right now. OMG Never seen that before!!!!

    schreinersshop
    Alma Wi
    Posts: 47
    July 15, 2011 at 10:44 am #980994

    I remember when they used snow plows to get the may flies off the winona bridge. have only seen a few in Alma so far this year

    sandbar
    Woodbury, MN
    Posts: 1029
    July 15, 2011 at 11:10 am #980999

    Crossed the Mississippi on the Wakota bridge this morning. My truck was pelted with may flies. Never had that happen before.

    cshurtleff
    Northeast Iowa
    Posts: 95
    July 15, 2011 at 11:11 am #981000

    How are the May Flies around Lake City and Redwing areas?

    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    July 15, 2011 at 11:14 am #981001

    I remember when I lived in LaCrosse they scraped and sanded the bridge approaches because there was so many they became slick.

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    July 15, 2011 at 11:44 am #981006

    First May Fly hatch in La Crosse last night also.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    July 15, 2011 at 11:47 am #981007

    As I was leaving my camper this morning, I looked up towards the dam. I thought it was odd there was a cloud hanging so low in the trees above the water.

    Because is was a “darker than normal” cloud I wondered if is was diesil exhaust from a tow that just went by…now I’m thinking it was May Flies.

    Guess I won’t know for sure until tonight.

    DrewH
    s/w WI.
    Posts: 1404
    July 15, 2011 at 11:51 am #981010

    In the 1950s I was at a night baseball game in Winona that was called because of May flies. When some one hit the ball it would get so greasy the outfielder could not keep the ball in his mitt. I was on the river yesterday and there spurts of small clouds of them.

    yahbuddy
    Holmen, WI
    Posts: 170
    July 15, 2011 at 2:51 pm #981077

    On the Mayflies subject. Does anyone have very good luck fishing during or shortly after a Mayfly hatch? In the past I have had good luck at the begining of a hatch but pretty tough after.

    mbenson
    Minocqua, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3842
    July 15, 2011 at 3:59 pm #981101

    There’s hope for our hex mayfly hatch yet!!! Woohoo!!! Ours hasn’t come off and YES, I want to fish it!!!

    Mark

    millerman
    Red Wing, MN
    Posts: 627
    July 15, 2011 at 4:02 pm #981104

    Make sure you run upstream with your mouth open!

    hookem
    Hastings,Minn.
    Posts: 1027
    July 15, 2011 at 4:15 pm #981112

    Quote:

    Biggest swarm of May flies I hhave everseen hoovering over Lake Isabel right now. OMG Never seen that before!!!!


    Just in time for Rivertown Days.

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