What is this nymph?

[Andrew Mann]

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

[Rich Ward]

Sounds like a crean scud or shrimp.

Rich

[crook33]

Sounds a bit like a crackleback or a variation of it.

[danoinark]

I agree, a crackleback var.
Dano

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[Fishnfool]

Sounds like a crane fly larva to me.



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John G.
Albuquerque, NM

[MPW]

Does not matter what it is.

Tie some up and get em in the water!

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**MW**

[Doublehauler]

Sounds like a cellophane brown hackle white to me.

[zimrx17]

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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