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On Nov 24, 1:58*pm, george9219 wrote:
On Nov 24, 2:07*pm, Larry L wrote: And my bride has every single color but no longer does embroidery. Hmmm.... Might be worth the risk I've poo-pooed the book a couple times here, but it actually gave me some good Ideas and his approach to collecting and matching midges is impressive I make a couple floating nymphs using partridge (or similar) *for tails and legs ( beard style) two shades of DMC for a segmented body, a loop tied CDC wing case/ wing, and two shades of zelon dubbing mixed for thorax * * Absolutely nothing new here in concept but the abdomens look very nice with the slightly different color segments, and they fish well * * Often, on the hard fished waters I seem to frequent, the trick is to produce something that looks like the bug but different from the other patterns that look like the same bug ... I also use the stuff for midge pupa and other totally subsurface nymphs Um, speaking of totally subsurface...or not. * THE single thing I'd most like to master is the ability to fish small to tiny half-in the film ... or better yet, just under it ala a real midge hanging down trying to work through that barrier ( or one of my crawling baetis spinners stuck there ?) .... none of the techniques and/or ties I've tried really does the job .. consistently * *It's pretty simple to get half-in half-out "float" at size #14 ... even 16, but with tiny ties, no. * Anyone got ideas, I got ears. Have you tried using a larger floating fly as an "indicator"? A friend, who is a master flyfisherman, tyer, and rodbuilder, ofren uses a hopper in tandem with a midge pupa with great success. I use a dry/ dropper combo a lot .... just yesterday I caught a few with a # 16 Griffith's Gnat as the dry and a small beadhead midge dropper down 18" but it was "fish the water" not fish the midge hatch I'm looking to consistently hang that "nymph" right at the film NOT down a foot, or even 6 inches, not even an inch, to match the naturals during a midge hatch |
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All,
Just looking over this thread and seeing that we have posts from Wales to Oz, sworn enemies, and more. Ya'll are trading info on a rather esoteric area of the sport (at least I though it was esoteric till I asked about it). This is trey cool. Thanks for alll the help. Today is the American Thanksgiving Day. I thank you all for your help and I want to thank those original folks that set up ROFF for giving a voice to fly fishermen from around the world. Frank Reid |
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On 2010-11-25 09:23:38 -0500, Frank Reid � 2010 said:
All, Just looking over this thread and seeing that we have posts from Wales to Oz, sworn enemies, and more. Ya'll are trading info on a rather esoteric area of the sport (at least I though it was esoteric till I asked about it). This is trey cool. Thanks for alll the help. Today is the American Thanksgiving Day. I thank you all for your help and I want to thank those original folks that set up ROFF for giving a voice to fly fishermen from around the world. Frank Reid How maudlin! Pass the tissues, please. d;o) Happy Thanks Giving to you and yours, Frank. Dave |
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