I'm twistin' up some midges and scuds for an up coming trip
Just wondering... what are your favorites?
Midges
I'm twistin' up some midges and scuds for an up coming trip
Just wondering... what are your favorites?
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart
Some of my favorite midge type patterns are:
Bear Paw
Griffith Gnat
Cluster Midge
Johnny Flash
Trout don't speak Latin.
Asian assassins:
Tak's Biot Midge
Yong Midge
Both are deadly!
Zebras in red or black and black brassies.
I've been working on a bunch of the flys mention here.
(As seen in Fly Fisherman, Sept 2001)
But I'm not familiar with the Bear Paw that Tyrone mentions.
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart
My favorites are:
1. Brassies in sizes #22-#24.
2. Griffith's Gnat in sizes #20, #22 & #24 (this is actually my "go-to" midge pattern and is very productive on Pennsylvania streams.
3. WD-40 in sizes #22-#24
-Darryl
My one wish is that when I die my wife doesn't sell my fishing stuff for what I told her I paid for it...
Super-floss bloodworm
TDC
Sprout midge
Depends on where you are fishing and what they like.. I use a lot of Olive, red, black, zebra. All with Tungsten bead heads in 16-22. One thins I find they like....use an x-small clear vinyl v-rib over the thread. It just give them that ........wormy look. I'vehad fish bite the same color with the v-rib and not without.
Just my opinion but if a midge pattern has more than three materiasl on it you are working way to hard. I see guy's tying patterns with 5,6 and even 7 materails. I can do the ame pattern with 3 materails and catch just as many fish. In fact two materials are enough 90 percent of the time. Like I said it is just my opinion. Ron
I'd like to contribute two patterns:
The first one I bought at the fly shop in State College last year and now tie them myself. It's a beadhead with pheasant tail fibers and gold wire and is tied on a small scud hook. Use the PT tips to make a tiny tail. Otherwise, I think it's probably obvious. Don't know that it has a name. Has worked for me very well on Spring Creek and in the Lehigh Valley.
The second one is Al's Rat. Very well known pattern locally. Works in a lot of places including the Willowemoc and other streams that aren't known for midge fishing. Tied on a small nymph hook. It's just brown monocord with a tiny fluff of muskrat to suggest a pupa head. Even I can tie that one.
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