Are midges effective for warm water fly fishing?
 

By necessity, most of my fishing is in warm water rivers and lakes.
Do panfish and bass take midge patterns?

Are midges effective for warm water fly fishing?
 

"mdk77" wrote in message
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By necessity, most of my fishing is in warm water rivers and lakes.
Do panfish and bass take midge patterns?


As far as panfish go, they can do a great job. I frequently tie a
zebra-midge or such as a dropper and they have saved the day countless times
and I'll go straight to them on small streams in winter when the water
temperature is on the cold side and the fish are a bit sluggish.
Largemouth.... well up to a certain size they are just like any other
panfish, but I have to say that the closest I've come to catching a LM of
any size on a midge was when Mr. Bass swallowed the sunfish that swallowed
the midge.

-Doc

Are midges effective for warm water fly fishing?
 

On Oct 23, 9:47 pm, wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:12:10 -0000, mdk77
wrote:

By necessity, most of my fishing is in warm water rivers and lakes.
Do panfish and bass take midge patterns?

Small panfish will but the size you would want to take home prefer
something more substantial like a popping bug or a foam bug. There's
some info here on tying a foam bugs;

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flyt...te/part42.html

Thank you very much for the feedback. I have had great success with
foam flies for panfish and bass. At times they are particularly
deadly around here. I was just curious if midges were also worth
trying in warm water situations. I also wondered about ice fishing
with midges. I'm one of those crazy guys who is always curious about
everything. This week it's the "midge thing" :-)