As for my fly-tying season, it’s going well. I’ve found myself concentrating on “suspender midge patterns” which are designed to imitate midge pupa that hang vertically in the surface film ...

Tying & Fishing the World’s Most Effective Patterns.” It indeed is true that midges and the patterns conceived to match them can be the most useful tool in a fly-fisher’s bag, and with each ...

More than 50 percent of the average trout’s diet consists of tiny midges ... pattern. That’s important because trout rarely charge midges. They subtly suck them down. When you see this buoyant ...

There are many patterns designed to imitate adult ... A challenge with dry fly midge fishing—other than tying a size 22 fly on your tippet—can be simply seeing the fly on the water's surface.

While tying a saltwater lure, a filament went astray, twisting itself around the hook. It looked almost exactly like a freshwater midge fly pupa. Craven, a former fishing guide who now runs ...

Tying tips: Tie in the wing case before tying the thorax and then pull the foam over the peacock herl and tie-off behind the eye of the hook. Trim the foam leaving a short tab that extends beyond ...

Fishing chironomids (midges ... presentation to the Magic City Fly Fishers on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 7:30 p.m. Kevin Davis will lead a workshop at 6:45 p.m. on tying two popular chironomid patterns ...