Dragonfly Nymph

[MKern]

Felt like breaking up the monotony of tying PT's, sulphur parachutes and ants.
Like how this dragonfly nymph turned out. Did one in a brown shade too.

 

[evw659]

That's a great looking dragonfly nymph! just out of curiosity, did you use all dubbing to build up the underbody of the abdomen? Jw because I would think that would take a long time.

 

[MKern]

Thanks.

I actually use a thin yarn on each side of the fly, running parallel with the hook shank. It does take a while, but I build up layers or yarn on each side of the hook, making them shorter each time.

The fly is fairly flat.

I guess I should have given a materials list in the OP.

Hook: size 6 3XL caddis curve
Weight: 8-10 .25 lead wraps at abdomen
Body bulild up: craft yarn tied in, layer by layer, on each side of the hook shank
Rib: olive rod building thread
Shellback: olive Swiss straw marked with a black sharpie (on the brown version I used thin skin)
Wing case: Swiss straw or thin skin folded back and trimmed to shape
Body material: poly yarn
Legs: rod wrapping thread coated in two coats of fingernail polish and bent to shape
Eyes: gold bead chain

 

[NickN]

Cool pattern.

 

[barrybarry]

Looks perfect. Saw quite a few last week while turning over rocks. Not much to them color wise. Big drab gray/black meal.