Midge Color And Size At Bennett

[rcguy]

Light Olive with black bead and wire is HOT sometimes.

Which reminds me...I really need to get down there!! I have not been this year

[NoLuck]

Light Olive with black bead and wire is HOT sometimes.

Which reminds me...I really need to get down there!! I have not been this year

Jerry,

If the water keeps going the way it has been you better get a full sink line. I was down 2 weekends ago and the water was almost back down to normal with a light murky color to it. You really had to make sure you were fishing deep. Your tippet needed to be almost 2.5 times deeper than the actual water to get it down with the current. Also don't let the color fool you. Use 6 or 7x tippet even with the murkiness. I can almost always get away with 5x with that color of water but not this time I didn't.Most of the fish were pretty small too. You keep hearing reports of bigger fish but I have not seen them yet. Maybe in the crowded holes at the outlets and the gut hole they are bigger but I stay away from them places. The P&P midge was almost useless this trip and I ended up using a lime green midge and did pretty well.

If you get a sinking line an olive crystal bugger was working pretty well too. Hopefully as soon as this water gets right I'll get back down there.

[stlfisher]

I have done well at Bennett with a brown zebra midge, gold wire, cream/white collar dubbed, and a gold bead.

[FlyFishinFool]

Light Olive with black bead and wire is HOT sometimes.

Which reminds me...I really need to get down there!! I have not been this year

Hey Jerry,

I finally made it down last week for a few days. No Luck's description was pretty accurate , water up just a little, color still murky, fishing decent but too many small fish. A couple of guys did well fishing for browns in the river until the rain cut loose on Thursday. Now that being said, I was still using 5X fluoro and caught fish on a slow but steady basis - about 5 to 6 fish per hour. No Luck is right, I did find using a fairly long tippet to be critical to consistent success.

On the positive side, there was a 7+ lb Brown caught in Zone1 the week before I was down, and a guy caught a a brown just shy of 8lbs in Zone3 while we were there (gave the fish to my daughter after getting his picture taken at the store - we filleted it....delicious!), and there was another big brown caught that week in Zone2 as well. I would say 75%-80% of what I caught were small/average sized. Also, a couple guys were starting to have some luck throwing cicada flies - worth a try!

Of course the bad news is it rained Thursday & Friday (when we left), and apparently almost every day since then. I would recommend anyone planning to go down to monitor the water level website VERY closely. Good luck!

[brittsnbirds]

Bucket Mouth!!!

BUCKET MOUTH? "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

Anyway, Rich your not going to guess what I just found that makes an awesome rib. One of my comrades is a Tazer instructor. He did a demo for my Cadet's the other night at a meeting. He was showing them the wire that hooks to the probe and it looked like a nice piece of copper wire to use for rib. Further inspection revealed that it had a shiny clear insulation sleeve on it. Very small but pliable. Took some home and tested it out on a hook that I wrapped with hot orange thread. Then wrapped the Tazer wire up it. Put some of the epoxy stuff on it and it was awesome. Next step is the P/P with it. May have a hit!!

Jerry, are you using black as your rib on your light olive? Quit crying, I haven't been down either and that is just WRONG for me!!

Thanks everyone also for the other patterns. Definitely will whip some up in a few days.

[NoLuck]

BUCKET MOUTH? "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

Anyway, Rich your not going to guess what I just found that makes an awesome rib. One of my comrades is a Tazer instructor. He did a demo for my Cadet's the other night at a meeting. He was showing them the wire that hooks to the probe and it looked like a nice piece of copper wire to use for rib. Further inspection revealed that it had a shiny clear insulation sleeve on it. Very small but pliable. Took some home and tested it out on a hook that I wrapped with hot orange thread. Then wrapped the Tazer wire up it. Put some of the epoxy stuff on it and it was awesome. Next step is the P/P with it. May have a hit!!

Jerry, are you using black as your rib on your light olive? Quit crying, I haven't been down either and that is just WRONG for me!!

Thanks everyone also for the other patterns. Definitely will whip some up in a few days.

I'm not fat and one eyed!! LOL

Pat if you look around you can find all kinds of stuff for making up flys. As for wire on them small midges the smaller diameter wire the better. Tie them as sparse as possible with all the key elements and just enough to make it look like what you want.

[mic]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I tried a lot of them as droppers, but didn't get a single hit. That's fishing.

[rcguy]

BUCKET MOUTH? "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."

Anyway, Rich your not going to guess what I just found that makes an awesome rib. One of my comrades is a Tazer instructor. He did a demo for my Cadet's the other night at a meeting. He was showing them the wire that hooks to the probe and it looked like a nice piece of copper wire to use for rib. Further inspection revealed that it had a shiny clear insulation sleeve on it. Very small but pliable. Took some home and tested it out on a hook that I wrapped with hot orange thread. Then wrapped the Tazer wire up it. Put some of the epoxy stuff on it and it was awesome. Next step is the P/P with it. May have a hit!!

Jerry, are you using black as your rib on your light olive? Quit crying, I haven't been down either and that is just WRONG for me!!

Thanks everyone also for the other patterns. Definitely will whip some up in a few days.

Yes Pat,

The ones I tied are like the one's I bought at Charlies one time he called Harvester midges. Black or real Dark Grey bead, med olive body, black wire rib. I've done well on them sometimes.

The olive thread is Light olive...not the Really light and not the dark. It was kind of hard to find the thread. I think I just found it!

Danville Light Olive 060 Bass Pro item number 38-490-102-60. thats it! I usually try one of those and a dropper of some other color like black zebra or Primrose and pearl.

But what do I know????