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February is here and midge fishing is upon us and we're going to give you some tips on catching trout on tiny dry flies.
One of the first keys to midge fishing is using a long, fine leader. I'll start with something like a 9 foot 5x or 6x and then I'm going to extend that out even more with maybe 2 feet of 6x tippet. You want to actually cast at the fish, cast just upstream from the fish and then reach the rod upstream, it's called a reach cast. What this does is it positions the fly ahead of the leader so the fish sees the fly before it ever sees leader coming at it.
If you have your leader right and you have your presentation down and you still can't catch any fish. The one thing i find extremely effective is to fish an emerger pattern that rides half in and half out of the water. This looks a little more natural to the fish a lot of times and so what I'll do is, I'll take a fly, I'll saturate my fingers and hold on to the tail of it. And then i take some of my frog's fanny, this is a powdered dry-fly floatant, and hit just the top of it. That way the top floats and the bottom sinks. We'll just drop this in the water so you can see what it looks like. The Weber, the Provo, the green they all offer great winter time opportunities.
If you have any questions about what we've talked about tonight or if you need to pick up some new midge patterns come on down to fish-tech. Now for tonight's fishing line.
