Looking for Midge patterns for western PA

[Caddisman1 0]

Looking for Midge patterns for western PA, could really use some help here.

Mine don't seam to work, the fish always seam to win

 

Thanks for help.

John

[Lance Kekel 0]

I've had some luck on them midges over there but they're a real basic pattern.

 

A very sparse hackle fiber table (3-4 fibers)

A slightly dubbed body (cream or black)

and 2-3 turns of matching hackle.

 

On average I've actually had better luck on those streams with very small beetles or griffiths gnats. I was over on Wednesday and it looked like they were midging and could not break the curse. After an 2 hrs of messing with several tiny flies I swapped over to an 18 griffiths gnat and suddenly action picked up. I also had some early success with small black beetles but only had two with me and the trees ate them right after I caught a fish on each of them. I often wonder on days like that if they're not actually midging but just munching on low floating beetles that you just can't see well.

[flytire 0]

Maybe some in my signature might help you!

[Lance Kekel 0]

Nice flies, I like the looks of that Shop Vac fly.

[fcflyguy 0]

Try a zerba midge they work for me and are easy to tie

Fcflyguy

[Caddisman1 0]

 

 

I'm using 7x , drap clothing being very careful with approach ??? can't figure what I'm doing wrong.

 

John