Universal Mayfly Nymph

[wolfi2de 0]

The Universal Mayfly Nymph will help you in many different situations..

 

http://www.w-fabisch.com/universal_mayfly_nymph.html

 

Have fun, Wolfgang

[Crackaig 0]

Hi Wolfgang,

 

That's an unusual technique of tying in the thorax cover forward over the eye and bring it back. Good to see I'm not the only one to use it. There is a lot you can do with it. If you secure it with ribbing wire it makes Czech Nymphs really fast to tie. Here is my favourite fly using that technique.

 

Nice site

 

Cheers,

C.

[gunsmith 0]

I like both

[shoebop 0]

Nice SBS, Wolfie! Simple and quick as well as good looking.

[wolfi2de 0]

Thanks guys, I wish you a good season 2015

[SilverCreek 0]

Hi Wolfgang,

 

That's an unusual technique of tying in the thorax cover forward over the eye and bring it back. Good to see I'm not the only one to use it. There is a lot you can do with it. If you secure it with ribbing wire it makes Czech Nymphs really fast to tie. Here is my favourite fly using that technique.

 

Nice site

 

Cheers,

C.

 

Crackaig,

 

As you are probably aware, although not an identical method, Frank Sawyer tie the thorax of his original version of the pheasant tail nymph by taking the pheasant tail fibers back and forth over the top of the thorax to form the thoracic bulge over the copper under wire.

 

Sawyer begins forming the thorax at about 40 seconds into the video below. It is the only surviving movie of Sawyer tied his famous nymphs.

 

[Crackaig 0]

Yes he does take it back over the thorax to double up the thorax cover. What I was talking about though was tying in the thorax cover or back forward of the eye before the thorax is formed. A technique that pens up a lot of other possibilities.

 

What does surprise me about the video is the use of a bobbin holder. They were not common back them. It is still quite common to see old vices with a small screw in the clamp with two rubber grommets on it. A length of thread was cut from the bobbin and when not being wound would be slipped between the grommets to hold it. I know people who still tie this way today, believing it results in greater thread tension in the fly.

 

Cheers,

C.