These little midges are easy to tie and appeal in a a whole range of situations. I like to fish them on a dry line with a longer leader either in a team of flies either static fishing or retrieving or as a single fly on a long leader to cover rising fish. They also work well as a river fly fished behind a heavier nymph.

Materials

Process

A	Wind the thread a third of the way down the hook shank and tie in the ribbing material. [member Link=”p=10018″ Title=”Understanding hooks”]

B	Wind the thread over the butt end of the ribbing thread and then down toward the bend of the hook. This gives an extra 2 layers of thread on the front third of the fly. To ensure a neat body hold the ribbing material on top of the hook shank as you wind the thread back down the hook to half way round the bend of the hook.

C	Wind the thread 3/4 of the way forward along the hook shank in close touching turn to form a thin body. Wind the ribbing material forward in equally spaced turns of the ribbing material to just in front of the 3/4 position to form a series of body segments on the fly. Tie the ribbing material off and trim the excess. [member Link=”p=2656″ Title=”Body segments on flies”] Take the thread back to the 3/4 position. At the 3/4 position tie in a length of holographic tinsel on top of the hook shank.

D	Using the singly strand method of dubbing load the thread with UV dubbing. [member Link=”p=2683″ Title=”Single strand dubbing”] Build up a thorax of dubbing which is just a bit thicker in diameter than the body. Pull the wing casing holographic tinsel over the top of the fly and tie it off behind the eye of the hook. Trim the excess tinsel. Build up a neat head [member Link=”p=2838″ Title=”Neat thread heads”] Whip finish and varnish the head.