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[flipnfly]

has anyone ever thought to combine a hares ear and a phesant tail nymph by putting phesant tail fibers as a shell back bound down with copper wire on top of hares ear dubbing? o tied a few i think they look good

 

[WildTigerTrout]

Never tried it but sounds like it should work. Try it and see and if it does let the rest of us know about it LOL!

 

[jayL]

flipnfly wrote:
has anyone ever thought to combine a hares ear and a phesant tail nymph by putting phesant tail fibers as a shell back bound down with copper wire on top of hares ear dubbing? o tied a few i think they look good

That's how I tie most of my nymphs. Just tweak the colors and materials.

Looks good.

 

[flipnfly]

heres a better pic

 

[jayL]

That would be a fine sulphur imitation.

 

[flipnfly]

but could it be used as a different nymph or is it too specific to fish just anytime?




PS
i love my camera....

 

[jayL]

Yeah. They're just fish. It looks like food, so they'll eat it.

But I would be especially confident when they are eating sulphur and MB nymphs.

 

[tig]

Looks pretty good fly.

 

[DGC]

One example of the idea--substitute dubbing for the turkey tail body:

 

[troutslammer]

would pass for an olive if they were hatching too in the right size , they will work anytime , caddis , sulfur , bwo , march brown , etc , looks good flip

 

[osprey]

flip...........That fly looks good , it will work and like JayL says just change around and "tweak" the colors and that style is a good one.................NICE!!!

 

[MKern]

A contrast of a shellback will work on any fly. Fish like contrast and the shellback is more realistic to the natural.

 

[osprey]

right on the money MKern , that shellback combined with the ribbing and dubbing creates that segmented buggy look and the dubbing looks like the row of gills that run down the sides of the naturals , even better if the dubbing "breathes a little" those little things that make our flies look natural to the fish. I read an article once that talked about the fish needing a certain amount of things to look right in order to take , it was like three things match up and it's a hit , was like color , size , movement or something like that.

 

[gfen]

osprey wrote:
it was like three things match up and it's a hit , was like color , size , movement or something like that.

Colour. Size. Presentation (of said lure).

 

[MKern]

The order is...
size, outline, color.

Presentation trumps all.

 

[whheff]

Flip, That is a nice fly!! I like to try different materials and curved hooks for my nymphs too.

DGC, I like that 4 bird soft hackle. Now I will have something to tie while I wait for the turkey tomorrow. Thanks

 

[bam]

Tried every combination of phesant tail, hares ear, gold/copper wire and peacock. Can't go wrong with any of them... they all work. Nice fly.

 

[flipnfly]

the dubbing should breathe when picked out its id say about 3 parts synthetic lifecycle tan to 2 parts bunny face with under fur then to mix i just combined it all and hand mixed it pulling and pulling came out good so to tweak the colors any suggestions? like olive... or more tan i want a fly that looks a little like alot of nymphs i know the shape represents crawling and clinging nymphs the colors of these nymphs is what im after.... are they more brownish reddish? anyone

 

[tig]

Hey fly maybe you could tie it on a scud hook give it more of a bend look.

 

[gfen]

http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/item/HK-051770-0000/