No-See-Un Fly -- New (to me) Small Mayfly Dry

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This popped up in my YouTube recommendations.  I think I really like it.  I've been looking for a patter that is quick to tie, but sits in the film.  Anyway, if I can figure out the figure eight for this fly, I'm going to try it out.  Anyone tie or use this fly. 

https://youtu.be/vImm4b4sdYE

[fishinwrench]

I feel like some segmentation (a rib) would make that fly even more effective.

My outboard test tank is always full of midge larva, and the body segmentation on those tiny little wriggling tubes is the most noticable thing about them.  

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39 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I feel like some segmentation (a rib) would make that fly even more effective.

My outboard test tank is always full of midge larva, and the body segmentation on those tiny little wriggling tubes is the most noticable thing about them.  

I wondered about that also.  

[kjackson]

I tied something like that way back in the day. but instead of a hackle wing, I tied in a small, blobby piece of white foam as a short wing.  

The first time I tried it was on the Spokane River below my house. I'd fished for a while, caught nothing significant and sat down on a rock at the edge of a deepish run to tie on the new fly so that I could see how well it would drift and float.  Since I was not fishing but fly testing, I kept the leader butt in the rod (you can guess where this is going) and flipped the little midge imitation out in the run in front of me. It stayed on the surface fairly well until a big nose rose up out of the run, took the fly down and headed directly across stream. Of course, when the leader butt hit the tiptop, the rainbow and I parted company. 

That fish probably was the largest I've hooked on a fly; I guessed at the time that it was 16 inches from the nose to the dorsal fin...

So I'm guessing this fly will work well, but I do like Wrench's suggestion about a segmented body.

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

I feel like some segmentation (a rib) would make that fly even more effective.

My outboard test tank is always full of midge larva, and the body segmentation on those tiny little wriggling tubes is the most noticable thing about them.  

            Mosquito larvae?

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, BilletHead said:

            Mosquito larvae?

No they are midges in the test tank.  I pour some oil (gear lube) in there to keep the mosquitoes down......but the midges live and hatch right through it.   

So do the tadpoles of Spring Peepers, oddly enough.  Hearty little fellas !

[BilletHead]

5 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

No they are midges in the test tank.  I pour some oil (gear lube) in there to keep the mosquitoes down......but the midges live and hatch right through it.   

So do the tadpoles of Spring Peepers, oddly enough.  Hearty little fellas !

                  Thats cool,

  I have some hatches in the little koi pond. Bullfrogs show up now and again. Tadpoles never survive. The two koi, one channel cat, one redear and a few tiny crappies keep things cleaned out.

[tjm]

Lots of midge pupae show segmentation, just like mosquitoes,  it's why the wire rib is on the buzzer/zebra type patterns. I tie red thread bodies ribbed with white sewing thread.  And for that type wing I like a tuft of snowshoe just tied down on top tilted forward like Better's Haystack.

Edit- on looking that fly up it is intended as a Baetis imitation.