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No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:32 pm
by DNicolson
I had a little break from the swap flies,
here is a Lawrie type nymph, which are actually Skues style.
Hook: #12 s/e Orvis dry fly.
Silk: Pale Yellow
Tail: Pale yellow Brahma side hackle fibres.
(Tail is a bit wonky)
Body: Hends body quill, reddish brown.
Thorax: Yellow Camel.
Hackle; Pale yellow Brahma hen, dark list.
I wanted to see what the Hends body quill was like, got it from:-
http://www.flytyingboutique.com/store/D ... category=5
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:09 pm
by letumgo
I have a daft question. Why do you call this fly a nymph? Generally I think of nymphs as weighted patterns, but I do not see any weight added to this pattern.
Lovely fly, by the way. I had never heard of the Hends material before. Nifty! How do you like working with the stuff?
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:30 pm
by DNicolson
A lot of Skues original nymph patterns were exactly of this style, so were
Leisenring's. Skues produced patterns with a dubbed thorax and hackles, and he also
produced the patterns with wing-cases as most modern nymphs have.
He did not used any lead wire or metal beads, they were a later innovation.
Lawrie developed his nymphs at about the same time as Leisenring, unweighted.
Here are Skues original nymph patterns and tying technique
http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page71.html Patterns,
http://donaldnicolson.webplus.net/page67.html Tying Technique, two examples of dressing a wing-cased nymph.
The Hends products are from the Czech Republic, I shall have to use them a bit
more before I can give a definite opinion, but they seem OK.
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:43 pm
by letumgo
Thank you, Donald. Very helpful links. I had seen the tying sequence link before. It is a very elegant way of constructing the legs and wing case on a nymph pattern.
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:48 pm
by DNicolson
I posted all of this on my web-site a good many years ago, but the books are the best source,
“The Way of a Trout with a Fly“ and “Nymph fishing for Chalk Stream Trout” are both excellent
reads, Skues was a very good humourist.
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:01 pm
by CreationBear
That one will fish. 
BTW I'm starting to really like the looks of the Hends products.
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:12 pm
by Kelly L.
Donald, I really love that style of fly. I have seen flies with Hends lately. I wish it was in the USA to try out. Thanks for sharing, looks like a work horse pattern!
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:53 pm
by willowhead
Cool pattern Donald.........VERY fishy. i like those types of tyes being refered to as nymphs.........why not. Would you use split shot when fishing them? Where in the water column do you like the fly to ride, and why? Btw, what is "Hends".....a "Hends" body quill.....
'i've been digging through my copy of, The Way of a Man with a Trout again lately.
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:19 pm
by DNicolson
I don't use split shot on leaders at all Mark, I would use this type of nymph for surface or sub-surface
fishing, I would have bead head or a nymph with a leaded thorax on the point and one of these on a dropper.
Here is Hends web-site, hope you can read Czech 
http://www.hendsproducts.cz/eshop/
I found this dealer in the USA who sells Hends Products.
http://www.performanceflies.com/SearchR ... sp?Cat=194
Re: No name Nymph
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:37 pm
by DNicolson