A Traditional March Brown Nymph
Here is an old fashioned March Brown Nymph dressed on one
of Veniards new series of hooks.
March Brown Nymph
Hook: #12 Veniard Light Nymph
Silk: Pearsall hot orange.
Tail: Three cock pheasant fibres.
Rib: Fine gold wire.
Body: Pheasant tail fibres.
Thorax: Dark hare's ear fur.
Hackle: Partridge.
Donald,
Very nice. Sort of a soft hackle or flymph?
It is a nymph pattern from before WW2, based on Skues via Lawrie.
A popular fly then on the Tweed.
Is it fished as a nymph - bouncing on the bottom; or as a soft hackle on the down and across cast with resultant swing at the end?
It is unweighted, it is fished subsurface. Skues nymphs were not leaded.
The use of lead on nymphs was more post war.
They were sometimes used with a Spider or a Dry fly.
Have a look at W.H. Lawrie's book 'The Rough Stream Nymph'.
This is identical to Leisenring's Pheasant Tail Nymph.
Both Lawrie and Leisenring were influenced by Skues, unsurprisingly.
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