New fly tying season: what to work on?

Always looking for big, ugly flies to catch big trout. The Pig Sticker
looks interesting and I will tie some up.


My quest is to get nymphs to wiggle like the real ones. When I throw
live nymphs into a stream the trout come running and grab them
aggressively. My patterns will take fish, but don't get the positive
takes a real live bug gets. BTW, dead nymphs seem to be a turn-off -
it's the wiggle that seems to draw them in. The plastic cones work OK
for streamers and very large nymphs, but for size 14 and under nymphs I
still can't get the wiggle I'd like.


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On Nov 29, 12:36 pm, JeffK wrote:
I still can't get the wiggle I'd like.

These *might* be helpful:

http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/...rds-Ghost.html
http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/...y-To-Fish.html

spittendrigh;100216 Wrote:
On Nov 29, 12:36 pm, JeffK wrote:
I still can't get the wiggle I'd like.

These *might* be helpful:

'Halfords-Ghost' (http://tinyurl.com/2kqhzz)
'Ready-To-Fish' (http://tinyurl.com/3yvcly)


OMG! Finally!!! I can fish a crankbait on my fly rod.

Cdog


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"JeffK" wrote


My quest is to get nymphs to wiggle like the real ones. When I throw
live nymphs into a stream the trout come running and grab them
aggressively. My patterns will take fish, but don't get the positive
takes a real live bug gets. BTW, dead nymphs seem to be a turn-off -
it's the wiggle that seems to draw them in. The plastic cones work OK
for streamers and very large nymphs, but for size 14 and under nymphs I
still can't get the wiggle I'd like.




This is a size 14 Damsel Nymph ... you can get the lips from Cabela's
....worked well in it's only trial ( warm water )

http://www.kimshew.com/BFP/fly6.jpg