This is another Chauncey Lively pattern called the speckled midge. This fly is designed to represent flies of the order Diptera. This fly is not meant to imitate a specific insect but to used as a general pattern whenever midges are on the water. Lively’s method of tying this fly is from front to back. To tie this fly tie in a brown and grizzly hackle behind the hook eye with the glossy side of the hackle facing the hook bend. Next wrap the thread back to the bend in close turns covering the hook sank. Next wrap each hackle back to the bend of the hook in open spiral turns. Trap the hackles with the tying thread and whip finish at the bend of the hook.

Hook – Dry fly #20 – 24

Thread – Olive 8/0

Body – Olive tying thread

Hackle- Brown and Grizzly mixed

John Lazar

Fly tied by John Lazar