Nymph Video

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Here is an interesting little video on what nymphs look like underwater.

http://midcurrent.com/videos/meet-the-hendricksons/?utm_source=MidCurrent+Fly+Fishing+Email+Newsletter&utm_campaign=028930d2fb-Newsletter_April_17_2013&utm_medium=email

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Wow, that is an excellent video!

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Now if I can just figure out how to get a nymph fly to wiggle like that.

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That tells me two things:

  1. It may be worth the trouble to learn how to tie jointed/articulated nymphs; and
  2. I need to use “fluffier” materials (e.g., CDC, marabou) for abdomens on my flies, since that seems to be where the gills do their moving.
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Thanks. That’s an excellent video.

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Jesse and mickmcco -

Follow the link.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/showthread.php?49748-Serendipitous-P.-T.-Nymphs&p=478516#post478516

John

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I have a white ostrich plume I bought with the idea of creating “gills” on the side of nymphs. I am still working on incorporating them

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Uncle Jesse, try aftershaft feathers from game birds. I lay one flat on top of the abdomen of my hex nymph before adding the shellback.

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Thanks for the suggestion, I believe I can do that.

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… that the Serendipitous PT nymphs …

… wiggle like the little guy in the video …

… but this fishy kind of liked the effect …

… and a while later, a really big fish liked it so well that he headed off across the river and took the fly with him when he broke off the tippet. Guess he wanted to show his prize to family and friends.

John

P.S. The one pictured above, with a tungsten beadhead, has three PT fibers incorporated in the FEB. The tag ends of the PT fibers were trimmed, but not the antron. After adding a peacock herl thorax and several turns of grizzly hen hackle for soft hackle style legging, the standing ends of the antron were pulled forward as a wing case and tied off.

The original Serendipitous PT nymph also caught a couple fish today.