It’s Mayfly magic time for most of the country and it’s in full swing here in Michigan. Mayfly hatches are incredible phenomena that can be a major factor in the bass habits and how you can catch them. While quite prominent in the north, I’ve seen them occur on Kentucky Lake, the Coosa River system and basically all over. A year ago, we saw a big hatch in the River Rumble on the Mississippi at La Crosse, Wis. It starts in June and runs into July.
Lake St. Clair near Detroit, listed by Bassmaster Magazine as the No. 1 bass lake in the country, experiences massive mayfly hatches every year. The hatch is so huge that convenient stores around the lake use snow shovels to clear them off their sidewalks and parking lots!
There are different species of mayflies, but they’re all like candy to every species of fish. When the hatch occurs, everything from walleyes to panfish bass and carp devour them.
The mayflies will concentrate the bluegills so the bass enjoy the smorgasbord of gobbling bluegills as well and mayflies. Read the rest of this very well written article on BASSMASTER.com….