Mo Report: Blue Wing Olive Midges

The Missouri is prime right now. Huge blue wing olive and midges hatches are coming off and fish are keyed in on them. I fished last night, hopping road spots from Wolf Creek Bridge down to about Stickney. There were lots of rising fish pods in every spot. Make sure that you have some stealthy BWO patterns, CDC and low riding are important if it’s in calm water. You can get away with a post and more hackle in the riffles but in the slicks they were choosy last night. If you can’t see a low riding or CDC style BWO pattern then put a visible one out front and have an emerger hanging 18 inches behind it with 4.5-5x tippet. It was really fun last night, and if dry fly fishing is your thing, you better go this week. We have a huge selection of BWO patterns in the shop to get you going.\

I actually had trouble getting takes with a white foam post and hackle last night, and I ended up ripping it off the fly and caught two immediately after that. There are a lot of naturals on the water so anything too far off really stands out right now.

BWO dries that will work right now include flies like the CDC comparaduns, Galloup’s Ride-Right BWO, BWO CDC Parachute, or a BWO CDC Hackle Stacker. For some visibility try the Hi-Viz spent BWO.

For emergers I would bring pulsating emergers, CDC emergers, and CDC biot emergers.