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I have caught fish on chironomids using a full sink line in deep water retrieving the fly vertically up from the bottom using a very slow hand roll retrieve. Also have caught quite a few fish fishing a unweighted chironomid just below the surface. Using a dry fly line you take some dry fly floatant and apply it to your leader from the end of the fly line all the way up until a short distance from the fly. if you want to fish your chironomid 8 inches below the surface you leave that amount of the leader un greased. you change the depth of where you are fishing by how much of the leader you grease up in relation to the fly. This works really well when trout are feeding just below the surface on chironomids about to emerge.