Peter F, beautiful stuff. Thanks for the link.
Biot Midge, can you say “Fly of the Week”?
For bluegill, red-bellies, etc… I like to go with peacock herl, grizzly hackle, and maybe some red, gold, or silver (or combos).
Robert,
I just call it a Granny Weave Bug. EdD, I would submit it for a FOTW if I had a camera with macro capabilities. Jim Hatch took that picture.
Steve
I’ll vouch for the Hare n’ Copper, a fly I picked up in New Zealand. It’s been a deadly nymph for both bluegill and crappies out in our part of the world. I’ve had good success with a Green Weenie I got in a swap. I have a little thing on a size 12 where I dub both black and that squirrel tan using a little black hourglass weight. Has sort of a jiggy feel, but I think the gills really go for the two-tone affair for some odd reason. Perhaps Rick would know why. Google Hare N’ Copper. Some of the Kiwi links show the fly, although I haven’t seen a pix by pix tutorial of how they’re tied. Frankly, they’re not that difficult. The messier looking the better. They’re not what you’d call anything real organized. JGW
I use LOTS of Zug Bugs…sizes 10-14, Gills, crappie and rock bass gobble them up. I don’t leave home without 'em.
Joe
Well, Steve, I didn’t catch any gills or shellcrackers on the Granny Weave Bug yet but a little runt LMB bit a #12 one late yesterday. I tied up two #10s and two #12s in both colors. The little LMB went for the chartreuse and black one. I’ll keep trying it.
My best luck with nympths here in Ga. has been with Pheasant Tails, Hare’s Ears and one that I designed that looks like a very small fry minnow, but other than color, it is tied like a dubbed nympth. I also use scuds with good results, mostly on trout and panfish.
Semper Fi!
My very own! creation wacky blacky
size 10
Black chenille
And at the butt of the fly some indian black buck hair. 
:lol:
More than anything I like to use chartreuse Copper Johns, followed closely by a wine colored Copper John. I recently started tying and using Barr’s Graphic Caddis with good success too.
-Erik
I like the Prince Nymph as well. But I don’t like to tie it with goose biots and substitute regular feathers. Here is a a picture. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v610/ … eNymph.jpg
Tim Anderson
absolute favorite of all time for bream is the pheasant tail nymph. (size 10)
Hi White43,
Hare & Copper is a pretty basic tie.
- Lay down some black thread.
- Tie in a short tuft of guard hairs for a tail.
- tie in copper wire for the rib
- dub a tappered body (thin to thick from tail to eye) : keep the body as shaggy as possible, with guard hairs sticking out every which way
- wrap the rib in even turns
- tie off the rib, make a small neat head, whip finish and cement.
The colour depends upon the hare’s fur, but anything from light to dark will work (match your local stream). The Hare & Copper is a great searching nymph because it specifically looks like nothing but it generally looks like something to eat. This is probably the single most popular nymph in New Zealand. For really fast water, you can add an underbody of lead.
- Jeff
hey how did you do the granny weave with a bead head. i just tried and it didnt work, so i had to start over without the bead :?
you need to have some stonefly nymphs (black or yellow), and rhyacophilia’s in your arsenal … hook size of course dependant on waterbody you’re fishing.
It’s no different that cold water … be aware of the food base in the water you’re fishing - and don’t forget to take something totally opposite too :roll:
darrell,
David,
The Granny Weave is the same with a bead as it is without it. Make an overhand knot, slip it over the bead and tighten.
Steve
Try this link for the Granny Weave:
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/advanced/part4.html:e90b2]Granny Weave Stonefly[/url:e90b2]
yeah i kno how to do the granny weave, i just couldnt do it with the addition of a bead head. i tried that stonefly too and it was HARD :shock:
David,
I don’t know exactly how Steve ties his but I used a small amount of the white poly yarn from the inner core of some mylar tubing for the tail. I take one single strand section of nylon yarn for each of the two colors or half of a strand section for a smaller size fly. I tie them in and hanging off the rear of the shank where the tail is tied in, then Granny Weave up to just behind the bead head and tie off the yarn ends. I cut the excess yarn and built up thread wraps there right behind the beadhead. All that is left is tying in the black rubber legs on top of the built up thread wraps. I do use CA Superglue, Sally, or other cement on the material tie in points and at the whip finished thread wraps behind the beadhead. This keeps the tied in materials in place (from shifting on the hook shank) and the thread from unraveling. Hope this helps.
yeah thanks!
wow thanks for all the replies. this year my boxes are going to be stuffed with new patterns.