The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Midges
Easy - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
This is an eye catching midge pattern. With the white puff, iridescent peacock, and red body it’s a hard one to miss; for the tier, or the fish! There is one material that has a substitution on this bug, but other than that the recipe should be closely followed.
Head: You can use Oral B Dental Floss (the puffy stuff), or Zelon in White as substitutes for Antron.
Although the fly is deemed the Rojo Midge because of it’s red color doesn’t mean that it always has to be tied in red. Just like most other patterns, having it tied in various colors and sizes will prove to be helpful out on the water. Some popular color are olive, purple, black, and of course the original red. What colors, and sizes you tie should depend heavily on where, and when you’re fishing. Match the local bugs if possible!
The white puff on the head of this fly gives it a characteristic that isn’t incorporated into too many other patterns. Sometimes just throwing something a bit different at them, like the Rojo Midge, is the key to success. Other than that, the pattern has the iridescent sheen of the peacock herl going for it. Fish can’t seem to resist that, and that’s why it’s used on some many different flies, including this one. River, or stillwater, this bug will produce for you!
Fishing this bug in a nymph rig is the name of the game most of the time. It has a glass bead, but that’s usually not enough to get it down to where it needs to be. You’ll want to pair it with a heavier fly, some split shot, or both to get it down there. That rule applies in the river, or on a stillwater.
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Region: West, Northwest, East, Southeast, Midwest
Midges Sizes: #14 - #26
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