Continuing our series on midges….

In our last post we look at the argument that in many cases you can and should try to match the midge hatch as best you can.

There’s another school of thought that we hear well defended, and it’s most often articulated by those ardent winter midge fishermen. 

Their argument is this - trout in winter won’t move much if at all to take a  small nymph, so you’ve got to put it right in front of them to elicit a take.  These guys are proponents of taking a couple of different patterns, in a couple of different sizes, and fishing them very thoroughly in a run, seam, or back eddy that you have a high suspicion holds fish. 

We have a Bozeman buddy who midges very well on the Gallatin here near Bozeman during the winter - he advocates at least a dozen casts / drifts through a hole or seam to really make sure you’ve gotten that fly down in the zone. 

His pitch is it’s much more presentation than pattern / size - which does make sense in his favored winter season.

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