Tiny Midge Adult with Upright Wings

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Tiny Midge Adult with Upright Wings.

I found this fly in Ed Engle’s book entitled Tying Small Flies (2004). I really enjoy opening Ed’s book periodically. I’ve featured several flies from the book. Use the “search” button on the menu bar and type in “Ed Engle”. It’s an easy method of finding the other flies I’ve highlighted in previous TBT posts.

Since I hightlighted size 20 and 22 Zelon Midges in yesterday’s post, I decided to challenge myself and see if I could tie smaller flies.

Paging through Ed’s book, I stopped at a chapter entitled “32s!”. He writes about “fooling around with small flies thirty years ago”. Remember, he published his book in 2004, so it’s been a while.

I wondered if I had any size 32 hooks and checked an old box where I store miscellaneous hooks. The smallest hook I could find was 28.

A size 28 was difficult enough! Here it is on a dime.

While I only used 2 different threads and a CDC puff for the wing, it wasn’t easy.

Enjoy…go fish!

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