Originally Posted by
Bass_Bug
I would agree that the abdomen appears to be woven, but the rest is pretty clear as Norm describes. Good heavens people this is fly tying, NOT rocket science. Tie it like it looks and see how well your compares. Or....since all the links point to buying this pattern, do that and look at the pattern first hand? Most flies up close, the average tyer can deduce the pattern like Norm did.
What I find interesting is that this pattern is not prefaced with "Bead Head" , I have one of Kauffmann's Fly Patterns books, and it has 501 nymph patterns alone, and 140 of those nymphs (yes I counted them) are "Bead Head-something or another". So why isnt this one a "Bead Head"