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Pheasant Tail Nymph
Pattern
Hook: Ashima F40 sizes 14 and 16
Silk: Camel Unithread 8/0
Weighting: copper wire doubled at the thorax and a single layer for the
rest of the abdomen
Tail: Pheasant tail fibres (only three or four)
Rib: Copper wire
Wing cover: Pheasant Tail fibre
Tying
Start with putting on the silk and tying loosely down to where the thorax
will start when you come back from the tail. Tie in two strands of very
fine copper wire and wind this in touching level turns up to just short
of the head position - remembering that you have some bulk to tie in here
eventually. Then take the copper wire back over itself giving a double
layer until the bare hook is met. Here continue to lay the copper wire
down in touching flat turns to the rear. Leave the wire below the hook
and bring your silk back to the tail position in loose turns.
Tie in the fibres for the tail (keep it short!) and then lay the pheasant
tail fibre up to the thorax, fixing it there with a few turns, and leaving
the ends away from you on the far side of the hook. Put on the rib in
three open turns, secure and trim off. Now tie in five or six more pheasant
tail fibres with the butt over the thorax. Take the ends of the abdomen
fibres and wrap carefully around the thorax (one or two turns only) and
secure them at the head.
Finally pull the second lot of fibres forward, keeping them flat, and
tie them off as well. Trim all pheasant tail fibre, and finish off.
Fishing
This is one of the flies that will never go out of fashion - whatever
the time of year, whatever the fish you are after. Larger version catch
salmon and seatrout, the 14s and 16s catch both trout and grayling. As
it is weighted it often fishes well on the point of a cast of there or
four flies, and it always does its job.
You can also tie it more lightly in sizes 18 and 20 on Ashima F15 hooks,
and just rib it with the copper, then fish it on a dropper with an attractor
on the point.
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