PRE-EMERGING SULFUR NYMPH BEAD HEAD

PRE-EMERGING SULFUR NYMPH BEAD HEAD

Hook : Daiichi 1150 # 16 - 18

Thread : Uni-Thread 8/0 Yellow

Bead : Tungsten 1/8 or 3/16

Tail : 3 or 4 Pheasant Tail fibers

Rib : Fine Copper Wire

Abdomen : Pheasant Tail Fibers

Thorax : Rabbit Atron Blend Dark Brown

Wing Case Split : Goose Quill Yellow

Wing Case : Turkey Tail

Fly Tier: Jude SanGregory

Tying Instruction :

1) Push bead on hook.
2) Tie on tail.
3) Tie on copper wire.
4) Tie on 4-6 Pheasant tail fibers tips first. Spin the pheasant tail to make a rope and wrap around the hook to make the abdomen.
5) Wrap wire rib over abdomen.
6) Tie on Turkey biot fibers or several strands of yellow thread.
7) Tie on Turkey tail fibers.
8) Dub a thorax of brown dubbing.
9) Pull Wing Case forward over thorax and tie down.
10) Pull Turkey Biot fibers or yellow thread forward over center of wing case.
11) Tie a head and whip finish.

Note :

This fly is intended to imitate the emerging sulfur mayfly as it splits its nymphal skin. It has worked marvelously for me during sulfur hatches.

ABOUT THE FLY TIER

E-mail : jsangreg@rochester.rr.com

I was born and raised in Northern Ohio where my favorite activity was walleye fishing on Lake Erie with my father and brothers. I now live in upstate NY where I enjoy fly fishing for trout and smallmouth bass. I have been tying my own flies since about 1990.