Awesome Midge - I'm Just Sayin' 17Apr15

By far my most productive tailwater fly this year (reimagined) and last year (unreimagined?) is my Awesome Midge, a variant of Smethurst's Midge. I've not really provided good images of it so I thought I would so do. I had to tie a bunch more of the #24 after the recent "Tango" so below is a composite pic rendered on brown and on black-grey. You see I like stuff tied very "buggy and rough." To repeat the recipe... 2488 hook, rusty brown thread, stripped peacock herl body finished in Sally Hansen's "Hard As Nails" nail-polish (the herl is a great color and nicely segmented while the nail polish provides the sheen often seen on midge bodies as well as strength to the herl), tiny olive KF Flasher wings, thorax of grizzly hackle duff spiced with peacock herl stripping (the thorax is stuff you usually throw away but here it creates an "awesome" flowy/swishy/buggy/flashy thorax and legs). Must be yummy - and sure mimics those tiny segmented grey-brown tailwater midges well. I have to say #24 is sometimes too big... perhaps I should do some #26s or even less.