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.
