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What is this nymph?
I was down at the local river yesterday and I watched as a young teenager caught bass after bass on a small nymph. I asked to see the fly, and this is the best description I can offer:
Hook: #12
Thread: brown or white (I can't remember)
Tail: brown hackle tip
Body: white (maybe off-white) chenille
Hackle: brown saddle hackle (wrapped the length of the body)
Shellback: appeared to be a strip of clear plastic shopping bag.
Does this recipe sound familiar? If so, what was he immitating? He must have caught almost a dozen fish in an hour!
Thanks
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Sounds like a crean scud or shrimp.
Rich
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Sounds a bit like a crackleback or a variation of it.
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I agree, a crackleback var.
Dano
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"From the Laid Back Lane in the Arkansas Ozarks"
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Sounds like a crane fly larva to me.
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John G.
Albuquerque, NM
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Does not matter what it is.
Tie some up and get em in the water!
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**MW**
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Sounds like a cellophane brown hackle white to me.
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Was the plastic on the back over or under the hackle? If it was under then I agree it was a crackleback type, but if it was over it sounds more like a scud.
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A bum-legged old man and a drunk. That's all you got?
That's WHAT I got.