Still There

[Wayne SW/MO]

I chased them around for a couple of hours yeasterday and only managed one. They're still taking what appears to be midges on top, but I tried several different ones, after throwing a gnat for 30 minutes or so, and it didn't help. I actually caught the one on a gray Scud.

My best luck to date has been on a BRT Midge, but it hasn't been great so I thought I would try some other things, to no avail.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

What is this BRT Midge that you speak of ?

Brian

[Forsythian]

About a year ago I had a buddy give me a selection of hand-tied scuds. Amongst the greys was a dark-colored jobber, almost black, and kind of thin and scraggly. Maybe a size 18? Anyway, I dropped it about 8 inches under a greased egg pattern, and it has been money for me.

I've caught 10 and maybe 15 fish on it... even got down there tonight about 6:00 and watched my boy get 2 with it before dark. That water is getting skinnier by the day.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Brian, I don't know if its a pattern or if I came up with it while experimenting, but Its a Black and Red Tungsten head midge.

At any rate i think of it as a BRT.

Forsythian, You're fishing much shallower than I have been. I've avoided the shallow fishing because I don't seem to get bit on top. I'll have to try a shallower drop.

[Forsythian]

Well, they weren't interested in the TSDCJ pattern tonight... (that's "Thin Scraggly Dark Colored Jobber" for you uneducated flyfishers).

If this warm weather holds up I'm gonna start hunting walleye/whites after dark instead.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Tonight would be the night for it.. what is it outside -- like 65 ????

Strange this weather switch..

Brian