Killer Brooklyn Variants Of Forrest's Manhattan Midge 19Jun19

First let me say that my Dad's name was Forrest, it's kind of unusual, and I've read all Pat's Books, and I fish the SPlatte extensively myself; so I am drawn to the Manhattan Midge. Second let me say that these are unquestionable improvements, and I will say why in simple terms: 1) blue, 2) color match and 3) midge symmetry. As evidence I offer: 1) in my field trials - blue works despite its lack of existence in the real river aquatic fly life (SoSueMe), 2) in my field experience fish are not spooked by colors in the fly that seemingly go together and 3) the Manhattan Midge is often tied with too few turns of wire, which is not reflective of our true midge populations' body segmentation. My recipe changes are simple - tie #22 in purple (or black if you deem needed) with XS gunmetal blue wire overwrap (x7 or so) vs copper or silver - no need to be garish with these fish. Use the effective mercury head glass bead for sure but try variants which match the body parts - cobalt blue glass bead matching the wire rib or purple glass bead matching the thread. Killer Brooklyn variants of the Manhattan. I've tied other variants of the Manhattan Midge for years for our waters - it was hard not to so do once reading Pat's stuff on Glamor Madera; still, buy from Forrest as he has a cool name. Sorry for the shitty image.