Articulate Jiggling Nymph

 Articulate Jiggling Nymph

This is another nymph pattern that spin off from the Jiggling Damsel that tie few years back... instead of using velvet rope as the abdomen, this pattern put in a wire shank to build the abdomen. weight it at the hook with lead wire and a small bead-chain.... suggest to make it slightly heavy as I would like it to bounce at the bottom with the hook point up. You can play with darker chenille colour to create giant stonefly nymph in dark olive, grey of dark brown.. or even try in chartreuse colour too.

you can also make the abdomen wider so it looks like a dragonfly nymph... 

I always like to put in a hot spot ( orange colour ) to attract more attention

Material List:

Jig Hook

Scud back

Semperfli Micro Suede Chennile

UV dubbing

SLF dubbing 

Goose and turkey biot

Pheasant tail fibers

lead wire and black bead-chain 

hard wire, 12lbs Mono line and markers

Deer Creek UV resin hard

3M surgical tape

Picture step by step tying instruction:

Part 1 of the tutorial - building the abdomen

 Prepare the hard wire shank

 Use 3M surgical tape to create the taper profile of the abdomen

 Now tie in the Scud back at the end of the wire

 Put in the hot spot

 Tie in the Micro Suede Chenille

 Tie in a pair of Goose biots

 Wind in the chenille

 Tie down the materials

 Trim the materials

 Colour the chenille

 some finished abdomen and the materials

Now part 2 of the tutorial..

 Put in the jig hook slanted

 Tie in the 12lbs mono line

 

 Now remove the hook and put in the abdomen thru the hook and mono line

 tie down the mono line and create a small loop... this step is to secure the abdomen

 Turn the hook over, wind in some lead wire and then cover it with 3M surgical tape, flatten the wire ( the surgical tape will hold the lead wire )

 Tie in the bead-chain

 Now tie in some UV dubbing

 Add some SLF dubbing

 Tie in the scud back

 Prepare 3 pairs of knot Turkey biots legs

 Tie in the turkey biots legs

 Wind in some dubbing to split the legs

 Fold the scud back over and tie down

 Drop some UV resin on the scud back... cure it with UV light

 Done

...Cheers and happy tying...

PomPom Critters

PomPom Critters

Well... those who walk into a craft store definitely notice these little furry ball in multi colours. It's a craft material which was widely use to tie egg pattern.

This is just another idea to convert these little fur ball into little critters, especially targeting Bonefish and other saltwater species

 Material List

Pom Pom Ball / Wool Ball fro craft store

rubber legs - small

Mono eye

UV dubbing

Deer Creek Velvet rope

Rabbit fur - arange

pink barb silileg

Markers, Hook and bead-chain

Picture step by step tying instruction:

 Hook the wool ball ball thru 

 Tie in the bead-chain

 Tie down the wool ball

 Tie in the silileg

 Add some UV dubbing

 Tie in some orange Rabbit fur - as hot spot

 Tie in the DC Velvet rope as close possible to the ball

 Turn the hook over and tie in the mono eye

 Dub in some dubbing

 Tie in the small rubber legs

 Trim the ball with scissors and colour it with markers 

Done... 

Cheers and Happy Tying