Ice-off → June is prime; continues all season. Watch for emerging pupa to match size/colour gofishbc articles 2026 06.

Effective sizes #12–16; vary colour to the hatch; larva = bloodworm pattern gofishbc articles 2026 06.

chironomid (pupa, under indicator); chromie (chrome pupa variation); shuttlecock (midge emerger); bloodworm (larva, on the bottom); Brassie variants.

premier lake, rockbluff lake, rosebud lake, peckhams lake, horseshoe lake — all classic chironomid lakes.

Confirm and expand the Found in list and abundance with hard data — benthic-sample communities via CABIN, occurrence records via GBIF (roll up taxa per watershed) and iNaturalist, DNA-barcode IDs via BOLD. Access, licences and the FWA-segment join method are in aquatic invertebrate and river health data sources 2026 07.

chironomid under indicator — how to fish them.

mayflies — often the next food trout switch to on an evening rise.

brian chan / phil rowley — video masterclasses on the pupa game: deep indicator rigs and no-indicator presentations bc flyfishing youtube library 2026 07.

Go Fish BC articles — timing, sizes, lakes.

Creston web research — stillwater context.

BC YouTube resource library — video instruction (Chan/Rowley).