Nick Thomas
Nymph
Easy
- Run on the tying thread and catch in a length of ribbon lying along the top of the needle towards the vise jaws.
- Bind down the ribbon along the needle and then bring the thread back to where you started.
- Wind the ribbon up the needle in tight overlapping turns and tie in.
- Whip finish, cut the thread and slide the ribbon body off the needle.
- Place the bead on the hook, push the point of the hook in and out of the middle of the body and fix the hook in the vise.
- Run on the thread behind the bead and lock it in place with thread turns.
- Slide the ribbon body up the hook and make a few tight thread wraps over it.
- Lift the front end of the body and make some locking turns onto the hook.
- Cut through the free end of the body, unravel the ends of the ribbon, trim them away and tidy up over the remaining cut ends with more thread wraps.
- Dub the collar, smear the thread with varnish and whip finish behind the bead.
brown trout
grayling
| Hook | Fasna F-415 #14 |
| Bead | Get Slotted 3.3mm pink slotted tungsten |
| Thread | 12/0 pink |
| Body | Pink satin ribbon |
| Collar | Troutline pink special scud and golden olive squirrel dubbing |
