"Hooch's" midge-magic

[doogie]

I had an incredible day on the "Hooch" Tuesday the 13th. I started nymphing right below Buford Dam and got off to a slow start. I hooked one small brownie on a size 12 haresear but then nothing!!! The water started getting really low and midges started coming off!!! I have never seen such a profuse hatch on the Hooch it was really incredible!!!!!. I switched to a size 20 black midge pupa and 8x tippet and began sleighing the trout!!!!!! I have never seen tho "Hooch" so low they even had to let out some water. Has anyone else been on the river and seen it this low and such a huge midge hatch?

[Gray ghost]

I was out there with you doogie it was a midge magical day. I have seen the Hatch coming off like that before but never the river that low . Someone told me in the parking lot that Divers were working on the Dam and they had to cut the flow off . Its to bad im not a spin fisherman I found about 20 nice lures and gave them to some guys on the way out.

[njfish]

Thats what I've have been fishing almost exclusively for the past few weekends. Black or gray, size 20 or 22. I tie them parachute style with a small tuft of orange glow yarn so I can see them. Really helps when the waters a little riffled from the breeze.