Chironomid Tying
Hey guys,
So I've recently added fly tying to my list of addictions and started with chironomids, mostly out of relative ease of tying and my previous success with fishing them. I've done my homework on a lot of the basic patterns (holo tinsels with wire ribs, frostbites, flosses, ice cream cones, etc) and I understand the basic colours (black, brown, red, green, etc). My problem is that I get utterly carried away tying every combination I can think of in various sizes. I bought the Scientific Anglers 210 nymph box (the one that holds the indicators and shot as well) and was hoping that I could use that solely for chironomid fishing. At the pace I'm going, I'm going to end up with two problems.. I won't be able to fit them all in there and half of them won't be necessary.
Just wondering what your opinions are on which ones are actually worth carrying or what your chironomid boxes look like. While I do enjoy tying them up regardless, I'd like to focus my efforts into what will be most productive. I still have some ideas from various websites that I'd like to try out, but again, don't know exactly which ones will produce well.
I think what would be awesome would be to see some kind of collection of photos of the actual bugs that we have here in AB (specifically SW Alberta) rather than just searching for various pictures of species that we may or may not have here. That being said, searching patterns obviously work just as good as imitations lots of times, so exact matches probably aren't that big of a deal.. but does something like this exist?
Anyways, thanks for any posts, if this has been brought up elsewhere feel free to point me to it. Thanks.
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