I remember seeing a documentary on this years ago, where they left on the overhead lights of a gas station to observe a Mississippi river Hex hatch.

So many bugs were attracted it took half a day  to clear the parking lot using bulldozers.

Fishing would be out of the question, as I’m not sure you could draw a breath of air in the crush of mating mayflies. A short loop of the National Weather Service radar shows a 90 minute hatch – and the airborne phenomenon the Mississippi can produce.

“Some roads across the Mississippi River in and around La Crosse were covered with bugs, piling into ‘drifts’ on bridges over the Mississippi River and its tributaries,” the National Weather Service reported. “Local businesses with high intensity lighting soon found large piles of dead mayflies accumulating under the lights by midnight.”

I see two dozen adults and get excited, my guess is you see the first couple drift by and you’re yelling for your buddy to run for his life.

All you’d need is Tippy Hedron running by headed for a phone booth…

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