Match the Hatch
My good friend James Marsh has recently reminded me of a few things about matching the hatch. "Matching the Hatch" is a very popular term used by anglers. However, it’s only correct during the time an insect is hatching, which on the average, is less than 5 percent of the total number of days any species of aquatic insect lives. For example, a mayfly that lives a year, usually only hatches during a period of a week to three weeks in any one given stream, although this varies greatly from stream to stream and species to species. The majority of its life is spent as a nymph!