Salad Spinner 01/07/2025 Photo Album

I encourage readers to follow this link to last year’s post, and that narrative in turn contains several additional embedded links to previous years. I should probably fish midges more frequently than I do, but they tend to fall outside more normal routine of productive flies, and I am always in disbelief, when a trout of significant size eats one of these tiny morsels.

Nevertheless, midges are prevalent year round in our streams and lakes throughout the country, so it is obviously a necessary food source for resident trout. They make up for their small size with density of biomass.

Nice View of a Salad Spinner

The salad spinner is an emerging midge pupa, and I love the look of the fine red wire rib over the black thread body along with the trailing white antron shuck, that then forms a wing case and an emerging forward facing wing. This fly was designed by a friend of mine, and he enjoyed so much success, that I had to add it to my arsenal.

Two New Salad Spinners and Required Materials

Over the last several years I have expanded my efforts to stillwater especially during run off, so I should offer the salad spinner more frequently in those environments. I counted my supply, and I easily had adequate quantities, but I elected to tie an additional two to stay in practice. They are quite easy to tie and require minimal time.