RIO's Hogan NF Midge

I have never been a huge "euro nympher." With my roots as a Northern California Tailwater Drift Boat Guide I have always believed in heavy weights, 3 flies, and a big indicator as the best way to catch trout. Simple flies tied on jig hooks just didn’t seem like something that would work on super selective tailwater trout. When I finally gave in and started messing around with Jig hooks and euro style flies midge patterns were the first I started tying and using on this new to me medium. The NF Midge was one of the first flies that I came up with to check the boxes on small dark “winter” midges and small dark baetis nymphs… This is the fly that I tie on when I say “well there are midges and baetis around…not sure which one they want yet” – sometimes I just keep it on and never find out what they want as I think they eat this fly for both.