When is a Prince Nymph not a Prince Nymph?

[branhap]

John,

It's amazing how one's luck on patterns can be totally different. The Prince (With peacock herl) is one of my staples, and recently, have found that tying some variations (psycho princes or copper princes) works really well too. You can almost always find at least one prince on my nymphing rigs, and at times, I have just tied on two of em because the fish ate them so well. I like tying the bodies in green and purple, or using a copper prince with various colors of copper wiring. (red, green, blue, gold, silver.) Though, my success on copper princes almost makes me wonder if the color even matters.

Paul

[Steven]

I suggest the "The Fly formerly known as Prince."

[/rimshot]

That name is already taken.

I think I've fished a prince nymph once in the last 16 years.

[Byron haugh]

Sort of like Halladay's original Adams fly. This photo (not mine) is tied per his original recipe.
Question is: Would you purchase this fly at a shop???

[ducksterman]

John,

or using a copper prince with various colors of copper wiring. (red, green, blue, gold, silver.)

Paul

I will digress ...as we did with the serendipidy...Paul you have given me an "aha" moment. I have wondered if it was "fair" to call all the various colored copper John's ..."Copper John's" ....colored copper wire so it's OK...it's copper...what a relief

[Byron haugh]

John,
It was sort of a rhetorical question................
Anyone ever tie the original Adams pattern?

[ducksterman]

OK, I have had an epiphany...the problem..[if there really is one]...is that the Brown Forked Tail...was misnamed it should have been called a prince nymph with a qualifier...just as the ones above that John referenced....maybe something like ..."peacock prince nymph". Then we would have never had this thread...drat.

[DG]

John, I gave up using that fly in the mid-90s, after the who-knows-how-many-hundredth-in-a-row whitefish ate it, and I finally snapped. Great whitefish fly, but I almost never use it any more.

And I try really hard not to lose any sleep over what the flies are called, because I never talk to them, so I never have to know their names. And the flies I mostly use are my own creations, and that means I get to call them what I want, regardless of what others may say.

And after reading the WFF thread, I recall why I don't visit WFF.

DG

[Uncle Jesse]

John, It was sort of a rhetorical question................ Anyone ever tie the original Adams pattern?

Eve's husband.

[redietz]

Anyone ever tie the original Adams pattern?

Only to be historically quaint. It's not a very practical fly, IMO.

[ducksterman]

I wonder if Eve's husband tied it freehand?