Buzzers for America?

[New Hampshire]

Hey everyone,

I have found David Cammiss' neat online tutorials. It has given me the impetous to give fly tying a try, but there is only one thing I need to ask......

...you see, I am a long time fisherman, new to fly fishing, who has gone his life on warmwater. So not only am I new to flyfishing, but have only seen (and fished for) trout a mere couple of times. All on ponds, no streams or rivers.

With that said, Davids first fly, which seems so rediculously easy to tie, is the "buzzer". This is apparently a very big fly to use in England, but my question is, does the Buzzer deserve a place in the American fly box? I don't want to start cranking out dozens of these only to find they are pretty much useless to me .

This looks like a fun little hobby and look forward to applying my efforts to it like I have the fly rod!

Brian

[Donald Nicolson]

Yes they are, Buzzer is just the name given to any of the midges pupa on stillwaters, because the adults buzz around.
You can tie them any size you want, on stillwater they tend to be larger than in streams.
Have a look here, there are quite a few patterns from size 10 to 18. About four or five pages of them.
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page7.html

Hope this is of use.

[New Hampshire]

Cool! Thank you very much!

Brian

[WarrenP]

Brian,

You stated:

This looks like a fun little hobby and look forward to applying my efforts to it like I have the fly rod!


You are only half right...Fly tying is fun, but, it is not a hobby, it is an addiction and there is no cure!!

Soon you will be in over your head!

Have fun though!!

[Normand]

a buzzer is basically a midge and trout love midges. like donald said, they can be tied any size. great lake patterns. a buzzer is basically a chironimid also.

[Rick Z]

Remember that warmwater fish are fun on the fly rod also.

Rick

[Donald Nicolson]

That is the latin name - chironomid - which if you used to a lot of anglers would get you a reputation as an 'intellectual'.

And they can catch fish anywhere, I had great fun fishing with just one in the ripple of a small loch near here, and the perch could not
leave it alone, it was a fish every cast. I put them all back but it was fun while it lasted.

[DShock]

Donald,
Have you had any luck with a Griffith's Gnat?
Doug

[Donald Nicolson]

This is a Sparkle Gnat I tied for a swap last September here on FAOL. A very useful little fly.

[flyandtie]

of course they will work here

nice fly donald, i really like that sparkle additive