Midge
Dry Fly
Griffith’s Gnat
A midge cluster in one fly — for the rises that no single midge will explain.
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- Hook size
- 20
- Imitates
- Midge
- Best water
- Spring Creek, Tailwater
- Colour
- Black
- Pack
- 12 flies
Fishes for
Brown TroutGraylingRainbow Trout
How to fish it
Fishing notes
Long leader, fine tippet — 6X or 7X — and a drift with no drag at all. Fish it to a specific rising fish rather than searching. If you cannot see it, watch the area and set on any rise within a foot of where it should be.
About this fly
A midge cluster in one fly — for the rises that no single midge will explain.
When trout sip steadily in flat water and nothing you tie on works, they are usually eating clustered midges rather than singles. George Griffith’s pattern — peacock herl body, grizzly hackle palmered over it — is a scruffy little ball that reads as several midges tangled together in the film.
It is a winter and early-spring fly on tailwaters and spring creeks, and one of the very few dries worth carrying in January.
Key features
- Imitates a cluster of midges, not a single insect — which is what fish eat
- Palmered grizzly hackle over peacock herl gives the scruffy, tangled profile
- Size 20 for flat-water sippers on tailwaters and spring creeks
- One of the few dry flies that produces through winter
- The answer to steady, quiet rises with no visible hatch
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