"Match The Hatch"

Emergence Schedule For Hatching Insects In The Mid-Hudson Region


 
Artificial Fly (Hook Size)
Insect
Dates
Times
Little Brown Stone (#20)
Taeniopteryx fasciata
Late March - Mid-April
1300 - 1600 hrs
Blue Winged Olive (#18/#20)
Baetis vagans
Mid-March - Mid-May
1100 - 1400 hrs
Early Black Stone (#18/#20)
Chimmarra
Late March - Early May
Early and Mid-Afternoon
Little Blue Dunn
OR
Dark Blue Quill
(#18/#20)
Paraleptophlebia adoptiva
Mid-April - Mid-May
Early and Mid-Afternoon
Quill Gordon (#12/#14)
Epeorus Pleuralis
Mid-April - Mid-May
Afternoon
Hendrickson / Red Quill* (#12/#14)
Ephemerella subvaria
Late April - Mid-May
Afternoon
Caddis
OR
Shad Fly
(#14/#16)
Brachycentrus

Mid-May - Late May
Mid-Morning

March Brown (#10/#12)
Stenonema vicarium
Mid-May - Mid-June
Late Morning and Afternoon
Gray Fox (#12/#14)
Stenonema fuscum
Late May - Late June
Afternoon
Sulfur Dun (#18/#20)
Ephemerella dorothea
Late May - Early July
Afternoon and Evening
Green Drake
OR
Coffin Fly
(#10/#12)
Ephemera guttulata
Early June - Mid-June
Afternoon and Evening
Dun Variant
OR
Coachman
(#10/#12)
Isonychia bicolor
Early June - Early September
Afternoon and Evening
Pink Hendrickson
OR
Sulfur Dun
(#16)
Epeorus vitreus
Early June - Early July
Evening
Blue Winged Olive (#14)
Ephernerella cornuta / E. attenuata
June
Mid-Morning and Noon
Light Cahill (#14)
Stenonema canadense / S. ithaca
Mid-June - Mid-August
Afternoon and Evening
Cream Variant
OR
Yellow Drake
(#8/#10)
Potomanthus distinctus
Late June - Mid-August
Evening
Caenis
OR
Trico
(#24/#26)
Tricorythodes species
Late June - Mid-October
Early Morning
Blue Winged Olive (#22/#24)
Pseudocloeon carolina / P. dubium
Mid-May - Late October
Afternoon and Evening
Blue Winged Olive (#20/#22)
Ephemerella lata
Mid-July - Early October
Evening
*The Hendrickson and Red Quill are female and male of the same species.
 

**This table is a reproduction of the table created by Sherry Svec (The Record) that was published on page 18 of The Times Herald-Record's special publication "Fishing Season '97: A Guide to Fishing the Hudson and Delaware Rivers."