If you wrap your wire ribbing in the opposite direction that you wrapped your body, it will be more effective at keeping it from unraveling if a fiber breaks.
Nice. I've found little gold head nymphs are my favourite trout flies. I've had good success with gold headed Montana, Pheasant Tail and Hares Ear type nymphs. I think the added weight of the gold bead helps the action of the fly and perhaps it looks like a bubble of air trapped around an insect. When winding the rib forward over the pheasant tail fibres or peacock or whatever I like to wind it the other way so the wire can hold the fibres down even better.
No offence, if you were tying this fly how would you improve it's appearance? I have caught fish on some quite crappy looking flies before but I would agree that tying a neat and realistic looking fly is satisfying in itself and probably more effective at catching fish. I think that generally flies don't have to look like anything in particular, they just need to look like they might be a real bug of some kind.
It's a nice nymph but it's not orginal PT, right? I'm new in flytying and i realy enjoyed this upload. I'm going to try this one. Thanks for posting. Cheers
Hmmm, what's the difference betweem nymph and lure in flyfishing? I've read an article and it's says that Frank Sawyer has invented PTN with wire istead of thread :o
ok im a pro fly fisher but i dont know a dam thing about making flies and i had a look in my old fly box and found some strange flies that dont look like any fly iv ever seen so im wondering if the fish take them as long as it looks like a insect or ????
Oh I know it will, I have collected pheasant tail flies, but like I said before, it might be the materials you used, or even your camera quality, but this fly just looks poorly made.
No offence, but I have never tied a fly, in fact I am new at it, but this is a really crappy looking fly. I can't tell if its the video quality, or the materials you used, but anyone can probably agree this is a bad quality fly. Good video, bad fly.
You can still be a pro even though you dont tie. You're not a pro because; 1 you dont know a damn thing about "making flies", yet you're watching a fly tying video? 2 You have an old fly box with "strange flies" that you cannot identify. And lastly because you dont know if a fish will take a fly if it does not look like an insect. Im sure theres a book of other reasons but im just telling you the obvious ones. I dont mean to be mean, but you're not a pro fly fisher.
@POWARENJA are you completly stuffed fly fishing is about throw tecniqe, fhishing spots, wheater and teperature not only flys. and i can see that you are not a fly fhiserman because of your insulting way of talking and if you think fhis will take flys that looks like things that come out a persons rear end then good luck
