I' ve heard mentioned, green chorominoids at my local lake. Is that a thing? How about a discussion on patterns and effectiveness. I've really not heard of these before...
Green Chorominoids.?
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Bambooflyguy
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2,500 species in North America according to Phil Rowley……I’ve seen them in a rainbow of colors…..even multi colored pupa!
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But are they a go-to pattern like a chromie or zebra.? Are they productive.? Should I bother tying some up.?
Bambooflyguy
Life of the Party
I don’t start with green….but if a throat pump reveals green chironomids, heck yes I’m using green! Fish can be zone/color/size picky at times. This is just one box of chironomids…..
Absolutely, tie some up! At times a small olive is up there on the list for me. All shades of green - including lime green. Gotta have 'em.
Plus the Bleeding Limey is just a cool name.
Bleeding Limey Chironomid Pupa Fly Fishing Pattern
Green with Red Butt Acetate Floss Bleeding Limey Chironomid Pupa Fly Pattern. A Unique & Productive Chronie Fly Pattern for BC's Trophy Rainbow Trout!
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I’ve had good luck in the past with either just a chartreuse thread body or a chartreuse Krystal flash underbody cover with clear v-rib.
SF
SF
Thanks for the peak inside your box Steve.
I see you have some Purple Rodney's in your box
One year I was anchored up on the edge of a BC lake's shoal fishing the usual stuff and catching a few fish. Two Canadians anchored up 50 yards away were putting on a clinic. I pulled my anchor to row over and talk for a minute. I asked what they were using and the response was "size 16 olive midge":
Olive isn't green, really - but this particular "shade of green" was deadly on that lake.
Another year I was fishing a BC lake that's not too far from Kamloops; it's a very popular lake but even so I can't hotspot its name. Again, anchored up on a drop off and watching two locals rail on - fish after fish. I asked them what they were using and got a nice surprise "come on over, grab one of these green flies":
Pretty green? It worked well
This fall I fished a Basin stillwater a holographic green midge (size 16) with a red butt under a Seegercator - it worked very well for me.
Tie some green bugs.
Bambooflyguy
Life of the Party
Purple Rodney’s aren’t chromonids…..I see you have some Purple Rodney's in your box
Bambooflyguy
Life of the Party
Did it on purpose RCF……
RCF
Life of the Party
Not pointed at you. Why I did not quote you
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@Wetswinger - before RCF and Bambooflyguy go off on a tanget, let me tangentially drift your thread a bit: "purple". Another day at the same lake where I was gifted the above green chironomid - three of us had our prams anchored up along a dropoff where the day before a standard chromie had been killer. On that second day, chromies were rejected, anything olive rejected, bloodworms rejected, black and reds rejected. Fly after fly: rejected. Pretty soon I hear Keith landing a fish, then another, then another. He was in zipper lip mode so I had to pull my anchors and row up to ask him what he was using. Keith showed me his big bomber chironomid: The Purple People Eater (maybe a size ten beadhead midge pattern in purple).
Now back to our regularly scheduled "green chironomid" thread.
Now back to our regularly scheduled "green chironomid" thread.
Bambooflyguy
Life of the Party
Two guys I know call them chromonids……I asked them to show me one because I’ve never heard of them!
Mike Bacca
Smolt
Tie a dozen and use them above or under another chiro in black or red. They work.
One year fishing Dry Falls and Lenore, couldn't figure out the right flies until I looked at my car's front bumper which was plastered in bright lime green. Presto - we started catching the fish for the next two days, bright lime green chironomids. Never seen those since, LOL!
