WTF?

Fish Skin Flash Back Pheasant Tailed Nymph!

You find some really strange things in my local Angling Emporium and yesterday was no exception. I was looking for Nymph Skin but it was not stocked, Latex yes, but Nymph Skin no.

"What about using Fish Skin?"
"What?"
"We have fish skins in the coarse section"
"Lemme see them!"

Sure enough there was a peg full of prepared fish skins and one in particular caught my eye with it's MOP iridescence and at 1.85, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

So a Sawyer's PTN variant with Fish Skin and Peacock Herl is the result.



Yeah, the body needs more taper and you cannot see the effect of the fish skin, I know, but it gives that required flash back effect in natural light.



Looking at the skin, it is a cross between an oil slick and mother of pearl and I am sure that it will find it's way into a few more patterns before the season gets going!



View of F.S.F.B. on a size 12 Kamasan B830