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...