Dragonfly and damselfly Nymphs are tasty snacks for may fish species. They are larger than many other aquatic bugs and therefor fish are more willing to move out of their hole for one. Many say an olive wooly bugger is a fly that can mimic a dragonfly nymph and I don't disagree. But where you want something more true to the look of a dragonfly nymph, I find there aren't a whole lot of popular patterns out there. Not saying they cannot be found, and you will always find a few at a fly shop. But when you search for them online, you find some samples of what people have tied, but not really any staple patterns. This I believe is because the vast majority are tying something that is too difficult to create at quantity. You can maybe bust through 5 an hour on a bench and that just isn't fast enough to effectively fill a box for most people. I designed this fly with that in mind. I wanted something simple, and easy. The body will be automatically built in both taper and the right width using just a single marabou feather. It also forms the tail. Same thing with the head and thorax of the fly, simple techniques and quick, easy ways of tying in the materials that are quite simple. So I hope you guys like this, and I hope it becomes a staple in your box especially during the times of year your local river or lake are holding dragonfly nymphs.
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I want to apologize. After uploading this video I went back and watched. I realized I was calling the thorax, the abdomen throughout the video. So please excuse that slip up.
As always I include the materials I used on the fly, and links to where you can purchase them.
Hook: Risen streamer 300 in size 10 - www.risenfly.com/collections/...
Weight: .015 sized lead wire - amzn.to/39xwj2o
Thread: Olive Veevus 140 Power Thread - amzn.to/2MNgYkr
Ribbing: Chartreuse Small Ultrawire - amzn.to/2sDf8M8
Tail/Body: amzn.to/2ZM2p66
Thorax casing: Olive FTD Baby Bug Back - www.flytyersdungeon.com/Mater...
Thorax Dubbing: Dark Olive Antron dubbing - amzn.to/2SGByGZ
Legs: Perch (olive could work also) FTD Kraken Dubbing - www.flytyersdungeon.com/Mater...
Eyes: Homemade mono eyes -
Eyes to buy: Hareline Large mono nymph eyes - amzn.to/36cfRT0
UV Resin: Solarez UltraThin - amzn.to/39tIAop
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