Floating Chironomids

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Been reading UK fly fishing mags and they keep talking about these things (floating chironomids) and you fish em with a full sink, and the fly will suspend a foot or so off bottom, you tug the line and it will appear that the fly is heading for cover. However i cant find a pattern anywhere, does anyone know one or have any help for me?

Thanks
Nick

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Nick,
Is this what your looking for ?: http://www.bassbug.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Buzzers-suspender-black.html
Doug

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Its does look like what im looking for, and would probly work, but its still says fish it with a floating line like a dryfly.

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Those may work ,Doug, but I would leave the shuck off since he wants to fish on the bottom …another good find ,my friend:cool:.

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I believe the concept is the same - the foam will give the fly “floatation.” When you fish it on a sinking line or sink tip line, the line will find bottom and the fly will “float” above bottom, which is the “suspended” aspect of it.

John

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CDC Suspender Buzzer: http://www.danica.com/flytier/hverhaar/cdc_suspender_buzzer.htm
Doug

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you might want to post your question on the UK board.

http://www.flyforums.co.uk/

what kind of fly did they mention in all those articles you were reading??

GOOGLE “floating buzzers”

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This is something like it, but would not recommed CdC in this instance. Have a look here, just add foam to any of them in place of the head filaments.
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page7.html

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This is really a technique for stillwater trout, the buzzer above
is fairly small. In stillwaters the live buzzers can be surprisingly
large, as can be seen from the examples shown.
The bottom fishing technique is -
a very fast sinking line [HiD] with a short leader between 1 - 4ft.
Allow line to settle on bottom, jerk about a foot of line back with
longish pauses between pulls.

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Thanks guys, Looks like what im looking for, got good spot im going to try it in about a month should be good.