what are your favorite nymph patterns for warm water, besides the GRHE and the PT? I’m tying up a bunch of flies to get ready for spring, and would like to have a good variety of nymphs with me.
Thanks
Warm Water
Do you want to know? Do you really want to know? 
Here it is (tie it in a size 10 all black), link below:
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/beginners/part14.html:37e8e]Marabou Damsel Nymph[/url:37e8e]
I guess you could consider a Green Weenie a nymph. I had a lot of luck with it. Also, I like a black Flymph, or soft hackles like a Partridge and Orange, Partridge and Green/Chartruese.
I’m a big soft hackle guy, especially very early and very late in the season when the fish are not moving their fastest. Soft hackles create a lot of movement in the water even when retrieved very slowly, or just fished on a slow drop or dead drifted in the local creeks.
Peacock, black, and olive seem to be best for me in cold weather, with various brighter colors (and hare’s ear) doing well once it warms up a little.
Hi Warm Water Fly Fisher,
Besides the two you list, I also like a nymph listed earlier, the maribou damsel. The one I tie is from the American Fly Tying Manual by Dave Hughes, and is different from the Al Campbell tie, but also seems to work well.
Another couple of favorites are the gray hackle peacock (which is really a wet fly), and chenille bugs of various types. The Jitterbee recommended in earlier posts has done well for me in the few times I have fished it.
I am not really a very good bluegill fly fisherman, but have a good time trying.
Regards,
Gandolf
I caught a lot of nice gills and redears on these last spring, as well as a few bass. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/ … 610001.jpg
Here are a few that fell prey to them. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/ … 210010.jpg
Steve
I love size #12 Gurgle Pops on top in white, yellow, chartreuse and olive. When I have to go deeper, I like soft hackles (both weighted and unweighted) in sizes #10 and #12. Peacock and brown, white chenille and white hen hackle, yellow chenille and yellow hen hackle are my go to flies. I sometimes change the chenille for dubbed bodies of hare’s ear or even Hedron Flashabou Dubbing. The Flashabou dubbing really adds sparkle and visability. Soft hackles are great! 8T
In fresh water, I fish mostly ponds…the Prince nymph is the best all around nymph I have found…both beadhead and straight.
Biot Midge, YOU THE MAN!
That fly’s chartreuse racing stripe and four long wiggly rubber legs can’t help but drive bluegills clean out of their skulls.
Joe
“Better small than not at all.”
For fishing subsurface I like to use “Fur-buggers”. See the fly of the week for the “Woolly Fur-bugger”. Size 10 works well. I also like a version that I often tie smaller (size 12) called a “Hare and Herl Bugger”.
anybody use zug bugs?
Steve,
I’m going to have to try some of those Granny Weave Bully Spiders? If that’s what they are. Have you tried it in bright orange and black or just the yellow chartreuse and black?
Hi Peter,
I have bought some zonker strips this summer and also picked some up this past weekend so hope to tie some of those little buggers you tie and have written about.
I am hoping that the weather will hold and so that I can fish 'em once this year.
Regards,
Gandolf
- everybody needs at least a few of their favorite caddis pupaes
Robert,
Yes! Orange and black works well, too. I hadn’t really thought about it, but they are similar to the Bully Spider. One differnce is the method that the rubber legs are tied in. I just tie them on “Madame X” style behind the bead. Another fly that is similar is the Jitterbee.
Steve
Steve,
Hah! That’s what I thought. Orange and black is the other good color pattern besides chartreuse and black like the Jitterbee. I tied one of each color combination in a size 10 to try out. One last question. What’s your fly’s name? :?:
Hi WWFF,
I don’t fish warm water, though I read the forum here for interest. I would think a zug bug would work a treat; personally I think anything with peacock hurl must be good. I would also think a “dail bach” (sp?) would be good, as would a hare and copper, and zebra midges.
- Jeff
Jeff i’m not familiar with the dial bach
Hi WWFF,
The D.B. is Welch for “little devil”. It’s very simple, just a tail of light brown hackle fibres, a throat of light brown hackle fibres, and a peacock body. Pretty much a leadwing coachman without wings really.
Hare and Copper is just shaggy hare’s fur dubbed on the hook with a copper rib. Sometimes a small tail of hare’s fur is added as well. The bushier the better. I like it on a grub hook, but it’s tied on straight shanked hooks as well. Often weighted, but it can be tied unweighted (apart from the ribbing).
- Jeff
P.S. I mis-spelled it earlier, it shoudl be Diawl Bach.
ok thanks