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| 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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nice tying, but float nymph?
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..
very helpful, really fantastic tying, many thanks for sharing
I need help creating the foam thorax profile any help or advice? last question what size hook?
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
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.
Hi Robert, Have you send me your e-mail address..? I still haven receive it…
Pls send to dronlee@yahoo.com
Hey Dron I just sent you another email if it dosent come through I'll post it on here
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!