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This topic is about the True Fly Family Chironomidae
Midges are the most important aquatic insects in some places, especially fertile spring creeks where they are extremely abundant and the current is so slow that it's efficient for trout to surface feed on very tiny insects.
Some midges are large, up to hook size 14, but the majority are size 22 or smaller. The number of genera and species is hopelessly huge for angler entomologists to ever learn, and the identifing characteristics often require slide-mounting tiny parts under high-powered microscopes. Even the most Latin-minded fisherman must slip back to the basics--size and color--to describe his local midge hatches. Read more...
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| JAD | March 4th, 2010, 11:06 am | |
 Posts: 362 | I thing some members will like this video on midges. http://www.midcurrent.com/video/clips/cutter_midge.aspx Best JAD | |
| They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times, | ||
| Falsifly | March 4th, 2010, 11:14 am | |
 Posts: 661 | Thanks John | |
| Falsifly When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that." | ||
| Falsifly | March 4th, 2010, 11:56 am | |
Posts: 661 | John , since you brought up my favorite topic I thought I would add this for those who may have missed it. http://www.troutnut.com/topic/1827 | |
| Falsifly When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that." | ||
| Oldredbarn | March 4th, 2010, 12:32 pm | |
 Posts: 2608 | John, Thanks for bringing the vid to our attention. April 1st near here they stock a small pond and it's only real food is midges...It's the only time I really get to stillwater fish for trout...It's less than a month away! Spence | |
| "Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood | ||
| Shawnny3 | March 4th, 2010, 1:58 pm | |
Moderator Pleasant Gap, PAPosts: 1197 | Very cool. Thanks for sharing. -Shawn | |
| Jewelry-Quality Artistic Salmon Flies, by Shawn Davis www.davisflydesigns.com | ||
| Martinlf | March 4th, 2010, 6:16 pm | |
 Moderator Palmyra PAPosts: 3233 | John, I'm probably going to buy this one. Thanks. --Louis | |
| "He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell | ||
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