Friday 11 May 2012

Articulate Burrowing Mayfly Nymph

Articulate Burrowing Mayfly Nymph
This is a new attempt of tying a articulate foam burrowing nymph, which the tail  will point up and swing ( head down ) when you give small little strip.

Material:

Hard wire
Heavy Short shank hook ( add lead if you wish )
2mm thk foam
Pheasant Tail fiber
Feather
Tape Wing
Marker
Loon Hard Head
Mono line

Step by step tying instruction:

Cut a short hard wire, fold it half and tie in the pheasant Tail fiber

Tie in 2 pcs of foam as the abdomen

Tie down the foam to create abdomen

Put in a short pcs of soft feather, tie the foam around, trim the extra foam

Use marker to color the abdomen

Prepare a heavy short shank hook, tie in the mono line

Put in the abdomen section and tie down the mono line

Tie in the 3 pairs of legs and the tape wing

Tie in the thorax foam profile

Tie in another thorax foam profile

Fold the foam over and create the head

Put in a pair of pheasant tail fiber as antenna, tie the eye profile

Color the thorax with marker

The Burrowing Nymph is ready

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9 comments:

  1. nice tying, but float nymph?

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  2. No worry Sam... it's tie on a very heavy hook, it will sink slowly... you can also fish it with a sinking line... another way of fishing with my foam nymph... it works..

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  3. very helpful, really fantastic tying, many thanks for sharing

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  4. I need help creating the foam thorax profile any help or advice? last question what size hook?

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  5. Robert,

    Give me your e-mail address... I will send over a simple sbs of how to make the foam thorax for you...

    As for thr hook... I'm using heavy short shank hook ( TMC105 Egg Fly ) size 4 and 6

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  6. Hey Dron I sent an Email to the account listed on your profile with my actual email account as the one I use for this is a proxy.

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  7. Hi Robert, Have you send me your e-mail address..? I still haven receive it...

    Pls send to dronlee@yahoo.com

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  8. Hey Dron I just sent you another email if it dosent come through I'll post it on here

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  9. dronlee, could you send the sbs for the body to me via email ? Ive had mixed results trying to tie this fly mainly my hiccups are in forming the body...my email is fdfretes@gmail.com - thanks and tie on!

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