Fly Tying
Pheasant Tail
THE classical nymph. I like them weighted with lead wire.
1. Apply a little superglue on the hook shank.
2. Start wrapping your lead wire into the superglue
3. Double the lead over the front half of your first layer
4. Now tie in three pheasant tail fibers as tails, don't snip them off
5. Next, tie in brass or copper wire for ribbing. Make sure the wire is long enough to also form the thorax.
6. Now form your abdomen with the remaining length of the pheasant tail fibers
7. Rib the abdomen with your wire, tie down the wire and
8. wrap two layers of wire over the two layers of lead to form the thorax
9. Between thorax and abdomen, tie down 8 to 12 pheasant tail fibers at the middle
10. Pull both ends of the fibers forward over the hook eye
11. Tie them down right behind the eye
12. Whipfinish
13. and done. When using Dyneema, color your thread to your liking before you make your whipfinish
14. Here's a variant using two tungsten beads. This version has proved very efficient when fishing the Bow River near Calgary.
Enjoy tying and fishing your own! Wolfgang
Wolfgang Fabisch Nürnberger Str. 45 90542 Eckental Tel 09126 288640 Fax 09126 288643 Copyright: Wolfgang Fabisch
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