Chironomid Under Indicator

Key points

• Rig: chironomid hung beneath a strike indicator at depth .
• Deep-water rig (video): Brian Chan's Deep Line Chironomid Setup — leader assembly and long indicator rigs holding flies at precise depths to 30 ft .
• Search structure too: troll leeches / Woolly Buggers / bead-head nymphs along drop-offs (e.g. Horseshoe Lake east-shore cliffs) .
• Evening progression: emerging-nymph patterns, then dries — Adams, Grizzly King, caddis .

Open questions

• Depth/colour selection per lake — refine with on-water notes.

Forage to match

• Chironomids (Midges) — the midge pupa this whole method is built around.

Related

• Small Lake Stillwater Tactics — broader small-lake tactics.
• Chironomid — the fly.
• Horseshoe Lake — model venue.
• Match the Hatch (Stillwater) — evening dry-fly switch.
• Brian Chan — video instruction on the deep-line version of this rig.
• Balanced Leech — same suspension game with big food.