My favorite color is an amber shuck. Several years ago there was an article in one of the flyfishing mags dealing with midges on the Provo River in Utah and the overall consensus was that amber was the most prevalent color of natural exoskeletons being shed. I also tie a few with a light grey shuck. I don't usually use antron or zelon for a shuck, rather a pinch of dubbing trimmed at an angle. The dubbing I prefer for shucks is Simi Seal because it contains a spectrum of colors rather than being all one color as is the case with zelon or other shuck materials.

Here are a couple of my favorite midge emerger patterns:





Kelly.