Mind sharing a picture of your midge emerger?Another west side but only 12 miles from home…..38 C&R’d all sight casting midge emergers! Straight from the hatchery yesterday to eating dries on the surface! Nothing over 13” but fun!! I fished from 2:15-6:10
Zak, I must have five hundred different midge emergers! I’ve really noticed on a lot of lakes, when they first break surface tension and freshly hatch, a lot of them have orange bodies due to hemoglobin. I tie them from #18 scud hooks to #12 dry fly hooks. My favorite is tied with a paraloop grizzly hackle, choice of body color (orange, black or gray mostly) and either a tiny grizzly hackle tip or black/white verigated rod wrapping thread for a trailing shuck….whew! I also use 7x tippet……Mind sharing a picture of your midge emerger?
Thanks for the look into your fly box!Zak, I must have five hundred different midge emergers! I’ve really noticed on a lot of lakes, when they first break surface tension and freshly hatch, a lot of them have orange bodies due to hemoglobin. I tie them from #18 scud hooks to #12 dry fly hooks. My favorite is tied with a paraloop grizzly hackle, choice of body color (orange, black or gray mostly) and either a tiny grizzly hackle tip or black/white verigated rod wrapping thread for a trailing shuck….whew! I also use 7x tippet……
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Those are just my emergers……@Bambooflyguy has more flies in his box than I have in ALL of my fly boxes combined.
Bows to him for making me feel ______.