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| Radar image has some bugs in it, literally |
| 2006-07-11 |
| It wasn't rain. It certainly wasn't snow. So what was it last Friday that turned the radar in the La Crosse area into a sea of white? It turns out that it was a gigantic hatch of mayflies. The bugs were so thick that they showed up as a rainstorm of mayflies on National Weather Service radar. For about 1 1/2 hours starting at 9 p.m., the insects drifted north, with the radar showing them blanketing areas along the Mississippi River. "They were dive-bombing in the root beer floats," said Gary Rudy, owner of Rudy's Drive-In, whose family has been slinging burgers and soft drinks since 1966. "It hasn't been that bad in a long time." GROSS!!!! |
| Posted by:Chinter Flarong9283 |
| #6 Roger that, Besoeker ... ;-D |
| Posted by: ExtremeModerate 2006-07-11 22:38 |
| #5 A big hex hatch.....the fishing must have been awesome. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2006-07-11 20:39 |
| #4 I'd be fishing the big Walleye off the barge EM. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-07-11 20:27 |
| #3 Where? Where? I need realtime info! That would be Lacrosse, Wisconsin, on the Mississippi river, not overly far from Rochester, Minnesota ... the May Fly hatch is a big deal every year -- but usually not *this* big. And since that fly usually only lives for a day or two, and the fish in the area absolutely gorge themselves on them ... fishing probably won't be good for a week-or-so. |
| Posted by: ExtremeModerate 2006-07-11 20:15 |
| #2 Where? Where? I need realtime info! Where's the flyrods? |
| Posted by: 6 2006-07-11 18:40 |
| #1 you want flies with that? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2006-07-11 15:09 |