Skip's nymph
 

Any illustrated tying instructions for this on the web? Comments if you've
used it?

Skip's nymph
 

jeffc wrote:
Any illustrated tying instructions for this on the web? Comments if you've
used it?



http://www.westcoastflyfishers.com/f...kip_nymph.html

Skip's nymph
 

"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
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jeffc wrote:
Any illustrated tying instructions for this on the web? Comments if
you've used it?

http://www.westcoastflyfishers.com/f...kip_nymph.html

I think the pictures are better he
http://www.flyfisherman.com/ftb/smskipnymph/index3.html

Great fly. I'm going to go tie the leadbelly version right now.

--riverman

Skip's nymph
 

"riverman" wrote in message ...

"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
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jeffc wrote:
Any illustrated tying instructions for this on the web? Comments if
you've used it?

http://www.westcoastflyfishers.com/f...kip_nymph.html

I think the pictures are better he
http://www.flyfisherman.com/ftb/smskipnymph/index3.html

But interestingly, the final fly doesn't match the original picture! But,
thanks for the link.

Skip's nymph
 

"jeffc" wrote in message
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"riverman" wrote in message
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"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
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jeffc wrote:
Any illustrated tying instructions for this on the web? Comments if
you've used it?

http://www.westcoastflyfishers.com/f...kip_nymph.html

I think the pictures are better he
http://www.flyfisherman.com/ftb/smskipnymph/index3.html

But interestingly, the final fly doesn't match the original picture! But,
thanks for the link.


The initial picture is for a variant called the 'leadbelly', one that I have
never seen, but the setup looks appealing. The series of pictures are for
the standard variation, which is basically a hare's ear thorax, tail and
abdomen with a PT wing case. I love tying them, as they come out looking
more satisfying (to me at least) than a PT, but more tidy than a GRHE.

--riverman

Skip's nymph
 

riverman wrote:
"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
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jeffc wrote:

Any illustrated tying instructions for this on the web? Comments if
you've used it?

http://www.westcoastflyfishers.com/f...kip_nymph.html


I think the pictures are better he
http://www.flyfisherman.com/ftb/smskipnymph/index3.html

That looks like a great pattern based on a great idea. I'd not heard of
it before. The PT and the Hare's Ear are my favorite bread-and-butter
nymph patterns, and they don't imitate anything in particular, but many
things in general, so why not combine them?

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Skip's nymph
 

"riverman" wrote

more satisfying (to me at least) than a PT, but more tidy than a GRHE.



this combination of a PT backstrap over a fuzzier ( look at a PT under
magnification and it too is fuzzy ) body predates Skip Try ostrich
reinforced with the tying thread and wound like peacock herl for the
abdomen, with the PT tail/back/wingcase overlay tied in via the rib ( don't
be afraid to try Partridge or Grouse too), the thorax area Hare's fur or
similar, legs not needed. Trim the ostrich on the bottom of the fly and
you have a great internal movement, very gill imitating, but still uniformly
neat ( as opposed to picking out dubbing for gills ) pattern that Lawson
came up with years ago to suggest the swimming mayfly nymphs such as
callibaetis