Double 20 griffin gnat

[Leonard]

Pattern: Double 20 griffin gnat

category: midge

difficulty: 1

species: Trout and panfish

recipe:

Size: 16 TMC dry fly hook

Thread: 8/0 black

body (rear): peacock and (#20 whiting) grizzly hackle

center: black thread

body (front): peacock and (#20 whiting) grizzly hackle

Tying Instructions:

Place hook in vise. Start thread at 1/3 of the way past the eye (this will be where the body will be), wrap your thread toward the back of the hook, until you are even (stright up and down) with the barb. tying in the size 20 hackle, and the 3 strands of peacock herl. (you can wrap the herl around thread for strengh 4to5 time).. proceed wrap the herl 5-6 times around the hook (keeping it as close together as you can), then tye off herl and wrap the hackle 5-7 time over the herl. (you may add a half hitch knot here if you want).

wrap te thread back up to where you started, making sure you keep a "nice and even body".

next...tying in the size 20 hackle, and the 3 strands of peacock herl. (you can wrap the herl around thread for strengh 4to5 time).. proceed wrap the herl 5-6 times around the hook (keeping it as close together as you can), then tye off herl and wrap the hackle 5-7 time over the herl. Keeping a clean eye.. tye off you thread and clip.. add just a slight drop of head cement to hold..

Forgot this part..

how to use: this fly can be use as a dry fly, by it self, as a dry fly indicator, or skeet it across the surface in front of rising fish... you can as put a small midge dropper on the fly.. Its a great floater!!

[Guest Jim Traylor]

Looks like two midges doing their thing

Good looking fly Leonard.

Jimmy T.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Kind of the Double Trouble, popular around Bennett.

[Rio Grande King]

Leonard,

Fore-and-Aft flies really do make good midges. They seem to work sometimes when palmered versions, like the original Griffith's Gnat, don't.

A similar pattern that you might want to tie small is a Renegade; rear hackle brown, peacock body, white front hackle. For some reason that color combination really seems to trip up rainbows. We use small Renegades a lot for Tricos even though to our eyes they don't resemble the real bug in the least.