Here’s your chance to use your turkey tail material on these great TNT Nymph’s (Turkey-N-Tail) nymphs.
I’ll be fishing these big time out in Montana in July and August. I tie the Drakes in green, brown and gray, all in size 12’s.
I also tie black stones in size 8’s with a purple bead head… you of course can use copper, gold or black metal beads as well.
Good Luck!
Korn’s TNT Golden Stone Nymph
Korn’s TNT Green Drake Nymph
Hook: Mustad 9671 #10 for Golden Stones and #12 for Drakes
Bead: Toho Glass Bead 6/0
Thread: Tobacco Brown Danville 6/0
Tail & Shell Back: Wild Turkey Tail Feather about a dozen fibers
Rib: heavy copper wire
Body: DK dubbing from PFS or your choice
Legs: Pheasant after-shaft feather, 1 1/2 turns…
Steven the Hex will love-um! Mix and match the colors to suit the hatch…
Doug,
Beautiful flies. Bet Parks will be out of these in a hurry. Great site you have, can’t wait to try out the spruce moth this summer.
Regards,
Scott
ScottP, I didn’t tie any of the TNT’s for the shop this year, at least not yet… I fished the TNT Drakes near the end of the drake hatches last year with success in the NE corner, but it’s still a new fly for this year. We usually fish a new fly for a season before stocking it. Hopefully the shop will want some too. As for the Spruce Moth’s we sold out fast last season and I was tying them for the shop the whole time I was out there. It was my best fly anytime I was near the spruce trees.
[QUOTE=dr korn;420280]Steven the Hex will love-um! Mix and match the colors to suit the hatch…
Maybe abotut 10 years ago, I went out to Colorado one July. Not really knowing what to expect I tied up some Golden Stone Nymphs per AK’s Fly Box…Never used 'em, but never took them out of my nymph box.
A few years ago, one June, I head up to SW Wisconsin - water looks like coffee. Do nothing for hours. Eventually, I’m looking at these golden stones and realize the fish might take 'em as Hex Nymphs - plus they’re bigger than all get out anyways. Ding, ding, they were a pain to cast on a 4wt, but I took 6 over the remaining few hours of the afternoon. Pretty proud of myself that evening.
Have you watched these things sink in a bath tub or large container. Article over on the Flyfisherman site states that beadheads are very likely to flip over.
I always wonder when people use dumbell eyes with shellbacks on top. Even mono eyes will flip almost all hooks.
Steven, I’ve fished them and they are fine… Also, remember a tub of standing water though helpful does not make a river… current, line tension, a second fly, etc… make some difference. The best way is go fish them. But the dumb-bells, chain eyes and mono-beads are all tied on top of the hook so the weight will flip them so they ride hook point up. But, using a single bead centered on the hook shank is not a problem and the point and barb of the hook with it’s weight should allow the hook to ride upright… hook point down.
