The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

To add on to this, my first trip to Almanor to fish the hex hatch resulted in my first six strikes being from Smallmouth Bass. At first I was dismayed but then I realized how much fun I had had playing to strong fighters.

I think the water in Clear Lake has too much settlement of algae, mud and chemicals to support a large population of Hex. I could be wrong, have been before, but in the years of beingnear there when the hex would be hatching has led to never seeing any.