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That’s nuts. How many did you inhale/eat unintentionally?
Years ago I hit a caddis hatch on the Missouri that caked my truck with dead bugs. Where I fished I had to keep my mouth closed and breathe through my nose.. I caught my biggest Missouri River fish that day!! On a dry fly, caddis of some kind.. broke a couple of others off before I landed a 22" or 23" fish .. days we all live for!!
chironomids. I saw very very few fish come up. like 4.
, and then I’d cast and strip something shallow to start, see if they’re really active and feeding. That’s pretty nuts though.
To answer your question, I would start with a pair of bugs under an indicator. Micro leech up top, black chironomid below.
Is that an extra cushion on your seat?Thought this might be a fun thread and hopefully lead to some discussion.
What are you going to throw first?View attachment 10056
Hey what fins do you use for that float tube? I have the same style, and a couple of different fins and hate them. I know Force Fin's are popular and may pick those up, but have borrowed a set of dive fin my friend has and they are awesome. Curious what other options there might be!
No idea on the bugs.. I would probably be dragging an olive willy around or the streamers you tied for me!!
Cheers!!
No idea on the bugs.. I would probably be dragging an olive willy around or the streamers you tied for me!!
Cheers!!
Smith
Steelhead
My first thought was the water clarity was not great, perhaps a bloom in progress. Often blooms can be stratified by depth because of light limitations providing a darker and clearer environment below it. And the insects have to be coming up from the bottom. I would start deep with something in the same size range, one of your jigs worked up from the mid depths in the right color perhaps.
My thought exactly!
Me likey! I have a few similar patterns that incorporate the colors and profile of yours. One of my basin standards, both weighed and unweighted.
@Buzzy gave me one when he caught 20 something to my one or two one day last year. Thanks to him I catch the occasional trout these days.
Looks like adult chironomids; potentially a mating swarm or maybe adults that were resting in the shoreline vegetation that were disturbed in the launch of your craft. Either way they are not really available to the trout at that stage. Unless that picture was taken in the evening it is likely they hatched the previous day so I would assume it would be likely to see a similar hatch that day and would take the size and approximate color of those adults as the starting point of my chironomids under the indicate. A pupa of the appropriate color/size 12 to 18 inches of the bottom and a similar sized chromie a couple feet above the pupa. Based on the number of bugs I'm expecting it to be a chironomid day and would probably fish those flies on both rods though I want to cover the bases would fish something similar to wanative's flies with a full sinking line on the other rod until the fish showed which presentation would be the best.
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