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Favorite Chironomid Hooks?
- Thread starter Stonedfish
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Interestingly seems like nobody has cited the Alec Jackson chironomid hook which has an upturned eye.
edit, oh wait, no--is this what you are using @SteelHeadDave ?
edit, oh wait, no--is this what you are using @SteelHeadDave ?
Yes it is.
I get a small amount of evil pleasure in using AJ hooks ....
So when my buddy asks me what size I am using I can say "a 15" and bug the $hit out of him.
I have a similarly twisted sense of humor and like telling my buddy Herb that I'm using a lucky size 13.I get a small amount of evil pleasure in using AJ hooks ....
So when my buddy asks me what size I am using I can say "a 15" and bug the $hit out of him.
I didn't say they didn't work. But you know us fly tyers like to fiddle with different things so I offered an option I havent seen much of.Do chironomids on a straight shank hook even work at all, bro?
Having slotted beads and jigs allows variety. Different colorations, weights, hook gaps, and so on.
The jig hook craze ain't going anywhere bro...
Everything old is new again!I didn't say they didn't work. But you know us fly tyers like to fiddle with different things so I offered an option I havent seen much of.
Having slotted beads and jigs allows variety. Different colorations, weights, hook gaps, and so on.
The jig hook craze ain't going anywhere bro...View attachment 102222
I like jig hooks, too! But I'm so lame I'm still tying on 2457s. I mean, they still work, so...
I like it @Matt B
I’ve been known to fish some old skool mids myself.
Pheasant tail, peacock herl, and copper wire…hard to mess up that recipe.
The TDC was the first chironomid I ever attempted, pretty similar to the pic you've shared. It caught fish in Bobby and Nunnally well before Bobby disappeared (or it seems to have). As all of us do, I started morphing the pattern and substituted a little clipped antelope hair instead of ostrich herl. One fine evening at that fly fishing only lake near Othello that little midge got hammered but I kept missing the fish. Apparently when I debarbed the old Mustad, I weakened the hook as it was missing the hook point. ;-)
Wayne Kohan
Life of the Party
I love me some of this fly, kills them at Lenice. Which is funny because most tiers make a big deal of keeping the chironomids super skinny, and this one comes out fat.
One of my first times fly fishing and first time chironomid fishing I used that pattern at Nunnally. Worked very well to the point I lost all three I had due to getting snapped off.
I was anchored next to my buddy that day when a large rainbow jumped, hit my buddy in the back of the head and flopped around in his raft. I thought it was hooked but it wasn’t.
Can still see that happen vividly in my mind after 40+ years.
SF
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Lies, I tell you, LIES! There is no way that feathers with their natural refractory structures could ever outfish the baggie that my earbuds came in, or the exact right shade of root beer flashabou that some Canadian guy made 28 years ago and now it's out of stock and the guy has passed on but every now and then at an estate sale or on fleabay... 
.....but damn-those things work!
At ifrst my mild dyslexia made me understand this as you started tying chronies years ago, in the 1760s...
me too
Thanks to all for the hook suggestions.
I ordered some 1760’s in 12, 14 and 16 along with a bunch of tungsten beads.
SF
I ordered some 1760’s in 12, 14 and 16 along with a bunch of tungsten beads.
SF
me too
command: "Someone dressed in 1760s era clothing tying a chironomid fly on a Daiichi 1760 hook, looks like an oil painting"
You mean like to temper them so they don't bend out on the massive hawgs they hook when they re-emerge like a Phoenix, stronger and more magnificent than before?
