SPARKLE NYMPH

SPARKLE NYMPH

Hook : Daiichi 1270 # 16 - 20

Thread : Uni-Thread 8/0 Black

Tail : Grizzly Soft Hackle Green

Body : Flashabou Lime Green

Thorax : Cyclops Bead Eyes Black 3/32

Hackle : Hungarian Partridge Olive

Wing Case : Flashabou Lime Green

Fly Tier: Lawson Devery

Tying Instruction :

1) Tie on the bead first and secure it about 2mm from the eye with crossing turns of thread over the top of the bead. (This will be covered later by the thorax cover)

2) Tie in about 5cm of the green sparkle sheeting thorax cover close to the bead. Trim off the downstream end of the sheeting in a taper to help give the nymph its shape.

3) The fine tinsel I used came from a sewing shop This was made up of the tinsel and a nylon thread just strip out the thread and use the tinsel

4) Wind the thread down the hook to just behind the hook point, tie in the tail fibres and then wind the tinsel and tying thread back up to the bead to give a really fine body

5) Take two or three turns of golden olive ostrich herl around the upstream side of the bead and tie off

6) Tie in two bunches of died olive partridge hackle fibres as side beards

7) Bring the sparkle sheeting over the top of the bead, the ostrich herl and the partridge and tie off as neat small head.

8) Varnish the head using black head cement.

Note :

Body should be tied as slim as possible Use yellow tying thread size 8/0 max

ABOUT THE FLY TIER

E-mail : LawsonD@aol.com

Address :
7 St. Christopher Avenue
Fareham, Hampshire,
PO16 7BY
UK

I started fishing when I was about 6 with my uncle George who was a great (covert) extractor of Salmon from the River Tay, he never took any more than the family needed and tended only to remove fish from stretches of the river owned by the English.

I started tying flies a few years later to fish for trout on a wee river that runs through St Andrews and it was there I started to appreciate the delight of the upstream dry fly.

I am now very lucky to live now in Hampshire in Southern England and if we ever get a summer this year I will be out on the local lakes and chalkstreams trying once again to get them to rise. I am a member of out local Flydressers Guild and help out with a bit of the instruction. I guide on local rivers

when I get a chance to and when I can get back up to Scotland for the silver tourists.

My daughter lives in Vancouver, Washington State so when we visit I try to get away and get few a days on the Fall or Silver Creek. I floated a couple of the Cascade Lakes last summer and had a great time thanks mainly to the local fly fishers who made me most welcome with tips and tales. Got my first steelhead on the Deschutes also last year, mainly due to an excellent guide who put me right on top of the fish.