[Video] Tying A Muskrat Midge
Bucky McCormick of Blue Ribbon Flies demonstrates how to tie a Muskrat midge in this fly tying video tutorial. Imitating Midge Pupa Trout taking pupae do so in the surface film but usually key on impaired-emerging adults, those individuals stuck in their pupal shucks and unable to escape. Patterns incorporating a trailing shuck, such as the Muskrat Midge, are effective as trout key on and recognize the shucks and readily take these flies. Muskrat Midge Material List Hook: Dai-Riki 075 Bead: Lucent Tungsten Bead, Light Purple, 1/16″ (1.5 mm) Thread/Body: Uni-Thread 8/0, Iron Grey Thorax: Muskrat, Natural Wing:Zelon, White Tail: [...]
Categories: Fly Tying, Midges Tags: fly tying midges, midge patterns, midge pupa, midges
[Video] Tying Al’s Rat for a Tricos Hatch
Aaron Jasper of Trout Predator Online demonstrates how to tie Al’s Rat, a dead simple yet deadly midge pupa pattern that works pretty darn well even in the thick of a full blown Tricos hatch. Go figure. Tricos Hatch + Midge Pupa = Fish Don’t ask me why, but a midge pupa imitation such as Al’s Rat will often take more fish during a Tricos hatch than most Trico imitations, even during a good spinner fall. On the Little Lehigh Creek in Pennsylvania, my adopted home waters and where this pattern was developed by Al Miller, the “regulars” fish Al’s [...]
Categories: Fly Tying, Midges Tags: Aaron Jasper, Al Miller, Al's Rat, Little Lehigh Creek, midge pupa, midges, pennsylvania, tricos
Midge Life Cycle and Mass Confusion
It is 3:00 AM, I just got in from a week long, rain-soaked trip to California and I am writing about the life cycle of a midge. How I ended up in this state of affairs, I’m not certain. In any event here goes….. Ok, so I’m too tired to write so I figured I’d let this video clip of the life cycle of the midge filmed underwater do the talking; pretty neat stuff, even at three in the morning. I never knew how prominent those gas bubbles were. Midge Mania and Mass Confusion I’ll admit, this whole midge thing [...]
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