The FishingEnthusiast.com's Freshwater Fly of the Month: the Tungsten Zebra Midge
This nifty little midge imitation was developed, not by one tyer, but by a group of local fly fishers who call the richly beautiful Lee’s Ferry area of Northern Arizona home.
Originally called the Lee’s Ferry Midge, this little silver wire ribbed and bead-headed creation has been fished successfully from the Four Corners area of America’s western frontier through the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and even into the northern reaches in British Columbia.
Umpqua Feather Merchants’ Tungsten Zebra Midge sports a heavy tungsten bead head for increased sink rate and an attractive underwater profile. The neatly tapered thread body is topped with a contrasting ribbing of silver wire and bushy dubbing fibers form a realistic set of wiggly pro legs. When tiny midges make up nearly a fifth of the common trout’s diet in any water on the globe, this is a fly no angler should be without!
Specifications:
• A fantastic fly pattern developed in Northern Arizona’s Lee’s Ferry region, tied professionally by Umpqua Feather Merchants
• Midge imitation in the mature larval life stage
• Fishes effectively in all types of trout water
• Dead drift through slower water and eddies
• Faster riffles and current seams can also be great spots to dead drift a midge larva pattern
• Midges are often most effectively fished when attached as a dropper to a larger nymph or when fished just below the water’s surface with a large dry fly as a strike indicator
• Because of the common and widespread nature of midge species, trout anglers ought to keep a wide selection of midge fly patterns in their fly boxes
Tungsten bead head provides extra weight needed to fish deep pools and fast riffles or runs
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