Electric Candy Midge & Magnymphico 26Sep17

As it's time again for small flies and midges on the rivers, I tied up a new one to try. I heard of the Zipp New Moon using two wires for the PT. I'm trying a base of black holographic mylar and 2 wires of silver and red over that with a black nickel tungsten bead and coated in cyanoacrylate. Looks like candy. We'll see - my other "best" midges are more subtile than this larva.

They worked! While I caught nothing too big on them I did catch a few 13"ers on the PT like this one.

I really like the two bit hooker version of a pheasant tail I tied last year and used up. It hid the beads, stayed pretty slim and was decently heavy - however, it was very crowded and hard to tie and really only could get down to #20. I have quasimodos I like but the beads show and even stand out. A search led me to pictures of, but never recipes or typing instructions for, the magnymphico. I liked it and tied up some of my variant - the right uses simi peacock dub and the left uses ice peacock dub. I was able to tie the 8 pheasant tail fibers in just once and complete the tail, the body, the wing casing and the legs all in one instance - even on the #22s shown here. Cool and fast. I think these seem really buggy and will do well but the simi dubbing is a little light and would make a better PMD (with red thread instead) while the ice is darker like a fall BWO.