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FISHED IN A BLIZZARD THE little larger than even the biggest midge
other day, only for an hour or two. It
larvae, so the ly does double duty as an

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was cold, but the ishing was good.
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I was ishing a long pool in that snow-
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lies. I got on the water late in the after- storm, a place where the water slows and
noon, and only had a short time to ish deposits its load of silt. It can be a little
before the cold chased me back indoors. tricky wading in the muck, but that run
I tied on my usual winter rig, which con- is midge heaven.
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sists of a bobber with a couple of AB tin I picked up a nice ish high sticking

DINING & shot dangling about three feet beneath. that nymph rig, and missed another as
Eighteen inches below that I tied on a I was late on the swing when my bobber
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Nymph. This is my attractor ly and I like or there in the pool, but it didn’t seem
them with rubber legs. They give the ly a worth bothering with, yet.
larger, seductive proile.
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