08-13-2013, 07:24 PM
I wrote about chironomid fishing in my book "Success On Stillwater" you can get it on amazon but I will cover how I do the sinking line version here because FG did a good job on the indicator type.
I tie on a couple 'mids about two feet apart. To the bottom fly I clip on a pair of hemostats. I lower that set up right off the tip of my rod down into the water. On my reel is a type 7 sink rate line then the leader then the two flies.
When the hemostats hit the bottom put the rest of your line on your reel and bring up the flies and take off the hemos. Lower your flies back into the water. From there you can kick backwards, drift with the wind or slow hand twist retrieve the fly all the way up.
If you bring up moss/weeds then you drifted over some shallower section and either need to get back over deeper water or readjust your depth.
I do both indicator chironomid fishing and deep line chironomid fishing and they both have their place. I limit using an indicator to 8' deep or shallower. If it's 8' and deeper i use the sinking line method.
Good luck, maybe we can meet up and I'll show you my set up. AND I can second the furled leader Joni sells get a couple of them. They work great.
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I tie on a couple 'mids about two feet apart. To the bottom fly I clip on a pair of hemostats. I lower that set up right off the tip of my rod down into the water. On my reel is a type 7 sink rate line then the leader then the two flies.
When the hemostats hit the bottom put the rest of your line on your reel and bring up the flies and take off the hemos. Lower your flies back into the water. From there you can kick backwards, drift with the wind or slow hand twist retrieve the fly all the way up.
If you bring up moss/weeds then you drifted over some shallower section and either need to get back over deeper water or readjust your depth.
I do both indicator chironomid fishing and deep line chironomid fishing and they both have their place. I limit using an indicator to 8' deep or shallower. If it's 8' and deeper i use the sinking line method.
Good luck, maybe we can meet up and I'll show you my set up. AND I can second the furled leader Joni sells get a couple of them. They work great.
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