Bug Talk: PMDs 

Don Craven, on this day of your YT video, I pledge my support to hit the like button.

during a pmd hatch i always enjoy catching emergers in the drift and watching them hatch in my hand. it's like watching a miracle happen.

Here in the North East and PA, it's the Sulpher Hatch. A creamy orange to a yellow bug, in the 14 to 18 range. Its on now and has been since the end of May- it will continue well into July. Its one of my favorite hatches to fish.. It can also drive you nuts too. I keep it simple: a sparkle dun is what I fish most of the time, but of late, Fran Betters Usual has been really doing the trick for me late in the fishable day. It's a messy fly, but I like tying them. One of the problems that I have been having is that the waters I fish are heavily fished. They see a lot of flies. So, I keep trying to tie mine a little differently. It pays off at times. The other thing is that we are in low water conditions, and well, it's better not to even go into the water at all. They are spooky fish, but most ignore that and wonder why they don't get any hookups. Also, with last week's hot weather, I have not been fishing at all due to the water temps. The next big hatch is going to be Trico's. Go small or go home- I am looking forward to getting up at 3 am so I can make the 90-minute drive to the West Branch of the Farmington before sunrise. For some odd reason, Sulpher's and Trico's are two of my favorite hatches to fish.

Fished the best pmd hatch I've ever seem on the lower provo river last week. I could see thousands of the nymphs in the water in all stages and all forms of the adults. The fish were eating everything! I could catch them on everything that looked like a pmd. It was so good!

Great video! Lots of good info here.

...and they taste like lemons, lol!

How do all these bug hatches compare to the east coast? I'm in northern Virginia and still trying to learn what bugs I should be using when