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Matt's Midge
How do you tie a Matt's Midge?
Matt's Midge is a dry fly pattern for trout. Find its 4 materials and 15 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 2 of 5
- Target species
- trout
- Pattern designer
- Matt Miles
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: TMC 101 dry fly hook
- Thread: UTC 70D in Black
- Wing: Macrame Yarn in Ivory
- Hackle: Whiting Grizzly
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Tying instructions
Secure the hook in the vise.
Start the thread behind the eye and wrap back to the bend.
Keep the body nice and thin.
Make a nice thread body up to about three-fourths of the way back.
Tie in the macrame wing a little long.
Pull the hunk out and take some off.
Tie the wing so it lays nice and flat down the body.
Trim the wing off nice and straight, a little past the butt end.
Tie in a grizzly hackle.
Wrap the hackle around the hook shank.
Secure with a couple of wraps.
Pull those ends back.
Build a little thread head.
Whip finish.
Trim the thread.