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Old 01-12-2013, 04:57 PM
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Default Show me your favorite chironomid patterns

Growing up in bc I know to have a very special place in your flybox for these little guys, the biggest rainbow I ever caught was on my Chromie pattern with a red rib and either a black or red bead head!
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Old 01-12-2013, 05:08 PM
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Here is a couple moreimage.jpg
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Old 01-12-2013, 06:49 PM
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Old 01-12-2013, 06:57 PM
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I like fishing chironimids and probably had best luck with the silver one and the segmented one (last two pics), with the exception of first ice off, when the blood worms get the nod.




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Old 01-12-2013, 07:02 PM
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Old 01-12-2013, 07:21 PM
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I have more than a couple....
I know this is like my 10th question to you in the last 2 days, but what size of wire are you using on the redback chromie? I've tried v rib and its just too big.

I'll post some of my favorites once i can get my camera to focus on the itty bitty flies.
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Old 01-12-2013, 07:31 PM
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I know this is like my 10th question to you in the last 2 days, but what size of wire are you using on the redback chromie? I've tried v rib and its just too big.

I'll post some of my favorites once i can get my camera to focus on the itty bitty flies.
Jeremie,
when you're passionate about chronies there is nothing else I would rather talk about so bring on the queries!! UTC Small wire and XS on size 14 and smaller.
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Old 01-12-2013, 08:14 PM
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Jeremie,
when you're passionate about chronies there is nothing else I would rather talk about so bring on the queries!! UTC Small wire and XS on size 14 and smaller.
Awesome, im looking forward to giving the red back chromie a try on a certain saskatchewan lake over may long weekend.

My buddy (albertafisher) asked for me to whip him up some chironomids to get him started on the addiction. Here are my 4 most used colors, although, i have about 50 patterns, these are just to cover his bases.

This one is called the mountain dew snowcone and is of my own variation on the snowcone pattern.


This one is the summer duck pupae created


This one is my version of the deadly black and red combo, i just used came thread as the thorax


and finally, my all time most deadly pattern. Everyone who's fished chironies a lot knows this one. The CHROMIE
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Old 01-12-2013, 09:05 PM
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Nice to see there are guys out there who love to tie and fish these as much as I do.....
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Old 01-12-2013, 09:13 PM
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No pics, but Chromie is my go to chironomid pattern as well...
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Here are another few that i've been working on. For those that know, When you hit a chirony hatch head on theres nothing like it. It gets silly. Ive had days that people dont even believe me about. When they ask for proof, i always say i dont have any because whats the point in getting any... (On really good days) no one needs 50-100 different pictures.....

Peterhope Special


Left Field Pupae


Black and Silver


The Gunslinger (Had many good days on this pattern..)


I'll post more if people want more!

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Old 01-12-2013, 11:13 PM
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Old 01-13-2013, 02:40 AM
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[QUOTE=Bhflyfisher;1797897]Awesome, im looking forward to giving the red back chromie a try on a certain saskatchewan lake over may long weekend.

Interesting...
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Old 01-13-2013, 08:54 AM
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I have fished many BC lakes when the hatch is on, and the large fish become quite selective. 4 or 5 basic patterns in multiple colors and sizes rapidly expands into boxes full of flies. There is a species on Ironside that is black on the tail and green on the thorax. Here is my web page on Chironomid patterns

http://www3.telus.net/badger/chironomid_patterns.html
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Old 01-13-2013, 10:59 AM
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thanks for the website link badger!
Gunna b busy tying some of those for the next couple evenings
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Old 01-13-2013, 01:37 PM
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thanks for the website link badger!
X 1000!!
Great website Badger,really shed some light on the mystery of Chironie fishn for me.I've always been more of a skinny water flyfisher and pretty much limited my stillwater fishing to trolling streamers or casting dries to visible rises.I'll admit that until today,I've been somewhat intimidated by Chironie methods,with no real grasp of the life cycle or proper techniques to imitate,but with this newfound insight,I think maybe it's time to expand my horizons and give it a whirl.

I'm thinking I'm gonna have to print off some of this stuff for "on the lake reference" because to quote Bhflyfisher....."if you still have cell service,you haven't hiked far enough".
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I have fished many BC lakes when the hatch is on, and the large fish become quite selective. 4 or 5 basic patterns in multiple colors and sizes rapidly expands into boxes full of flies. There is a species on Ironside that is black on the tail and green on the thorax. Here is my web page on Chironomid patterns

http://www3.telus.net/badger/chironomid_patterns.html
Awesome link and very helpful.
Thank you much
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Old 01-13-2013, 02:29 PM
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I have fished many BC lakes when the hatch is on, and the large fish become quite selective. 4 or 5 basic patterns in multiple colors and sizes rapidly expands into boxes full of flies. There is a species on Ironside that is black on the tail and green on the thorax. Here is my web page on Chironomid patterns

http://www3.telus.net/badger/chironomid_patterns.html
BADGER! I have looked at that website probably 20 times and had no idea it was done by a fellow AO'er. Great job!! It is very informative.
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Old 01-13-2013, 02:54 PM
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I'll bite. Here are some of my favorite and the ones that I use almost 90% of the time.
You will have to pay me money to see my top secret though!!












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Old 01-13-2013, 04:11 PM
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Some of the herd.









Chosen from here!!



And that is just 3 boxes of five.


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Old 01-14-2013, 04:32 AM
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