Dragons

Fly Patterns
1

Hey guys…what’s your more productive dragon nymph?
Thanks in advance
R

2

I like the pattern shown at the link. However I prefer either a glass bead or peacock hurl for the head.

http://www.danica.com/flytier/mporterfield/suicide_dragonfly_nymph.htm

Tim

3

Olive woolly bugger, as always.

http://flytyingworld.com/component/content/article/34-flies/155-OliveD-Bugger.html

4

I’m not sure what it represents. I made it by accident, but it really catches fish.

Now, if I could just remember how I did it…

5

Charlie Brook’s Assam Dragon is about as easy as the come:
http://insects.tamu.edu/students/undergrad/ento330/password/labs/assam_dragon.html

Regards,
Scott

6

I would like to know how you can get such a abdomen affect with marabou. I’ve always used the “blood” quills and they never have such long soft looking barbs. Would full marabou plumes be different?

7

Currently my favorite…

http://www.skip-morris-fly-tying.com/skips-furry-dragon-simplified.html

8

Ray: I use an entire blood quill on each fly. Also most of my flies are tied with a weighted body. I have also tied them with medium olive chenille over the weight. The fish seem to like them both ways.

Tim

9

Of course that’s nothing relative to a real dragon nymph, maybe some movie’s dragon.

10

Charlie was a big proponent of impressionistic flies. He spent a good deal of time in the water, under the water with a makeshift garden hose snorkel, observing trout, their food, how they reacted to food and flies; if that’s how he saw a dragon fly nymph, that’s good enough for me (lol).

Regards,
Scott

11

:mrgreen: I understand