Goose Biot Nymphs

[lastchance]

Just wonderinig, do a lot of you tie your nymph bodies with goose biots? I've never done that. Just curious.

[rainbowchaser]

I used two for the abdomen on this stonefly nymph:

[planettrout]

Yes...I use them for nymphs and emergers. Particularly, for Tracy Petersen's Bat Wing series. The best I have found were the Stalcup's Premo Goose biots from Hareline, which are the longest I have seen. They were hand selected and are no longer available...




I also use them for Rick Murphy's Krystal Emerger...with Stalcup's Premo GB in BWO on a Gamakatsu 13 U Hook, #18 -#20...



...both of the patterns may be fished from the bottom of the water column to just under the surface... these two guys are the most productive patterns I employ on the Lower Owens River, here in the Eastern Sierras...



Split Wingcase BWO nymphs using that same Premo BWO Goose Biot...

PT/TB

[Jayatwork]

Yes, I tie some nymph bodies with biots. More turkey than goose though.

[whatfly]

Absolutely, and I use them for emergers too. Both goose and turkey, depending on the size of the fly and the desired effect. Of course, more often than not, thread would work just as well, I suspect. There are a ton of commercial patterns out there that use biot bodies, Mercer's Poxyback Stone for example, so a little searching will turn up a ton of examples.

[lastchance]

Do you put finish (glue, etc.), on the bodies to keep them from tearing?

[NJTroutbum]

At times. But not always. Depends what I'm going or in the abdomen. The APB is an example of no finish.

[Jayatwork]

Do you put finish (glue, etc.), on the bodies to keep them from tearing?

I usually hit the thread base with a light coat of bruashable superglue right before wrapping the biot. So the biot is wrapped over the still wet glue.