These are for Jesse, who, on the thread with the nymph video, was asking for a fly that had an abdomen that would wiggle like the nymph in the video.
Now, I can’t say that the abdomen on this PT nymph will wiggle, but it surely has a better chance of wiggling than a PT nymph tied in the traditional way.
For a really ugly fly keep on reading / looking. This one was done to create the impression of gills on the abdomen.
Chances are the “gills” will move around some, even if the abdomen doesn’t wiggle. ( The rest of the fly was obviously thrown together without much attention to detail and aesthetics. It is one sloppy, ugly mess when you get right down to it. )
The first fly was tied with six PT fibers incorporated in the furled extended body. The standing ends of those fibers were then tied in for the legs as the peacock herl thorax was wrapped, and then the legs were trimmed to length.
The second fly used just three PT fibers for tails incorporated in the furled extended body, which included a piece of ostrich herl to represent the gills. The rest of the stuff on the hook is just so there isn’t just a bare hook with a fluffy abdomen with off center tails protruding from it.
There you go, Jesse.
John
John,
Goren Grubic ties some interesting nymphs. This is one of them.
Interesting, Byron.
Can’t be sure from the photo, but it does appear that he is using a different technique. Looks like he may be inserting the tailing / shuck in the FEB with a needle rather than incorporating it ??
Do you have a link to any discussion on how he is creating his FEB ??
John
That didn’t take long. Follow the link to Grubic’s site and his Danica Grubic nymph.
http://www.flyandtrout.com/goran_page.htm
He does insert the tailing with a needle.
John
That didn’t take long. Follow the link to Grubic’s site and his Danica Grubic nymph.
http://www.flyandtrout.com/goran_page.htm
He does insert the tailing with a needle.
John
… of the nymph and took it fishing today.
This one, 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.
This little guy 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.
John
P.S. The original Serendipitous PT nymph also caught a couple fish today.
… after all …
Last week, he wouldn’t eat the Serendipitous PT nymph so it grabbed ahold so it could get a free ride around the creek. :shock:
But yesterday, he had a taste for a PMD emerger …
… and I got my fly back …
This was one hot fish, and when he took off with that nymph stuck in his back 5X didn’t even slow him down. Those foul hooked fishies really do pull hard, and this one pulled harder than his size even when fair hooked.
John
John,
When I noticed, in the picture, where you foul hooked him, I had to chuckle! I could feel the rod vibrating as he swam away with your fly attached before he broke off! Glad you got your fly back!
