The Fish Gods might tell you to completely avoid being on lakes where mayfly hatches are ongoing. But for the last decade, my boat's been capitalizing on June hatches like an annual tradition.  The presence of mayflies rising from the water’s surface, and sight of smallmouth wolfpacks feeding sub-surface, are what you should want to see during every calm early morning in June.   Mayfly hatches occur on most lakes, but waters with moderate to clear transparency offer the best visual experiences and fishing for smallmouth during this window. Good water clarity, coupled with sunny and calm, humid conditions enhances the opportunities to find flies emerging from their most concentrated regions of the lake and observing feeding frenzies of smallmouth in vast areas across the lake’s surface. The surface boils from the mouths and tails of smallmouth slurping adult mayflies that struggle to dry their wings before they can fly away. When in these feeding frenzies, the most catchable and aggressive fish will be in the upper water column, inches beneath the surface. Some smallmouth wolfpacks can be feeding heavily along shallower flats with a predominant