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Tallico nymph
We may be going to the Smoky Mtns. next month. I read about the Tallico nymph being a good one to use there.
I checked the archives but didn't see it.
Can some one direct me to a site that gives the details for this fine nymph?
Thanks a bunch!! John
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It's "Tellico Nymph." Google that and you should be happy http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif.
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I too heard about it's success in the Smokies. A fly shop owner told me that they also use it as a corn imitation. Tht sounded strange to me, but he would know better than I. It seems that a yellow glo bug would look more like corn than a Tellico...
Warmouth
P.S. I saw the pheasant-tail backed Tellico for sale up there, but not the peacock herl backed version. I doubt it matters, but it might be good to know.
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Here is a site where you can go and learn to tie the tellico nymph: [url=http://www.oldsmoky.com/SmokieFlies.htm:7fdd0]http://www.oldsmoky.com/SmokieFlies.htm[/url:7fdd0]
It is a real good fly to use here in the smokies. It you don't tie your own, any shop here has them. A good local shop here in Knoxville, is The Creel, John
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I wish you everlasting flies and tight lines.
[This message has been edited by bassman (edited 31 March 2005).]
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Tellico Nymph - ah yes. A friend of mine once caught numerous land-locked salmon & brook trout in Maine's Roach River late September one year on a #10 Tellico Nymph I gave him. (It was working for me, and my friend didn't have any). He lives in Bel Air, MD, and is originally from Plains, PA, area near Wilkes Barre. On his way home he stopped at the Little Lehigh near Allentown, PA. You know, the catch-and-release place where all the flies you fish have to be a size #24 or smaller. On a 7x or (gag!) lighter tippet!
My friend is rigging up. Come to what fly to use, he thinks, I'm going to try that Tellico. SAME exact fly he'd used throughout the week in Maine. Lucky because he never lost that one fly. Long story short, he took six or seven of those Little Lehigh River (educated) trout.
A couple weeks later he goes to Oak Orchard Creek in NY. Fishes there for like three weeks. Catches more fish, this time lake-run browns and steelhead on THAT SAME #10 TELLICO NYMPH before losing it in a fish.
The Tellico Nymph was created in Tennesee by a preacher in the late 1930's. It was introduced to the fly fishing public (in a book anyway) in the second edition of Ray Bergman's Trout in 1952 on color plate No. 16 titled "New Wet Flies."
PS - a note on tying: I use white or yellow 6/0 Danville flymaster to do the fly body because of the yellow floss, You don't want that nice yellow body to darken up when it gets wet.
Another tip: I rib my Tellicos counter-wound with fine gold witre to help protect the peacock herl rib and overback.
Also, I hackle mine with soft mottled brown hen back feather, two turns. Collar style like a soft hackle.
Switch to brown thread to finish the head.
Great fly!
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just a guess but, I would say the Tellico is a yellow sally nymph imitation. They are pretty abundant in the higher elevation streams of the Smokys which, The Tellico R. is a beautiful one.
Don is right though, they will work just about anywhere. I caught my first brown trout on a Tellico on the Chattahoochee R, smack in the middle of Atlanta. Hardly a clean river! Funny how a fly jogs the memorys.
Good luck on your trip John!....Jason
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The tellico in size 12 has done me well for both trout and bluegills.
Tim Anderson, Klamath Falls, Or
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Don B., Just a thought on tying off with brown thread. If you started the fly with white thread. Why not finish with white, and dab on some brown sharpie or other permanant marker for the head? Just a thought. Thanks
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cctyer:
Changing threads is no big deal for me. I use a Matarelli whip finisher with two turns to unload the white thread, (as I do on floss bodied wet flies where I ALWAYS use white thread as an underbody for any color of floss except black).
I'll also argue with AK (or anyone else for that matter) that "whip finishing by hand is faster." (AK Best Production Fly Tying).
For one thing, after 41 yrs. of tying, I do not know how to whip finish by hand. Stubborn, perhaps, but I have no desire to learn either. (I made a couple posts yesterday on "Videos and Tying." One post describes myself as an "old dog" with "new trick" syndrome).
Besides, I'll gladly go against any challenger in a contest to see which is faster. <G> Not to boast, it would just be a "fun" and "friendly" competition. Something like start thread on hooks, say make ten wraps then do a set number of whip finishes (a minimum of three). Keep it up non-stop for a half hour or longer - see who wins with the most hooks "tied & whipped." I would take 10:1 odds on that. (If I win, the challenger gives me ten flies, reverse if I lose). But that will never happen - it's just fun to make tying even more fun with a little mirth and levity.
My reason is that most threads I use are Danville 6/0 Flymaster, Danville 3/0 Monocord, and Uni-Thread 8/0. All are suseptible to fraying when handled by hand as in a hand whip finish.
I try to keep my hands soft etc., but you cannot elmiinate every last one of those little rough spots that wreak havoc on fine fly tying thread. Another reason is I do a lot of thread "flattening" just prior to finishing my fly heads.
Most guys are "clueless" when it comes to proper thread tension, and its degree of twist relative to tying flies, and how too much twist, or not enough twist, can seriously impact one's tying and total maintenance and mastery of proper thread control. That's a whole 'nother topic...
Finally, it would take me longer to pick up, uncap, use, & replace the sharpie than to do the quick whip finish & pick up a different bobbin already spooled with the final color.
[This message has been edited by Don Bastian (edited 01 April 2005).]
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Charlie Craven has a cool variation of the Tellico called the Heater; check this link for info and tying tutorial:
[url=http://www.charliesflybox.com/flybox/detail.cfm?parentID=29:55c51]http://www.charliesflybox.com/flybox/detail.cfm?parentID=29[/url:55c51]
Regards,
ScottP