Walker's With A Twist,

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Walker's Mayfly Nymph pattern is a stalwart in any fly fisherman's fly box, it is probably one of the first nymphs that you buy and also a very productive one, not just in the Mayfly season. This is the famous nymph after having had the 'treatment' from the mad professor!

 

Materials:-

 

Hook - Kamasan B830 or B800 size 10

Thread - UTC 140 Denier Brown

Rib - UTC - Dark Olive Wee Wool

Abdomen - Lureflash Superbug wool

Wingcase - Cock Pheasant tail fibres

Thorax - Veniard's Brown UV Straggle Standard

 

Mount the hook in the vice - always a good idea!

 

 

Thread the shank up to the barb area

 

 

Tie in a goodly bunch of fibres from a cock pheasant tail feather and pull them through to length before tightening the thread loops

 

 

Catch in the rib material

 

 

Followed by the abdomen material leaving a tag for bulking up

 

 

Wrap the thread up to the start of the thorax catching in the tag ends of the rib and abdomen keeping the wingcase on the top of the hook

 

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Wrap the abdomen and secure under the thorax area

 

 

Run the rib up the abdomen and secure in the same place, cover the tags with thread and run back to the start of the thorax

 

 

Tie in a length of the straggle for the thorax

 

 

Wrap this to behind the eye bearing in mind you have to secure the wingcase over this

 

 

Stroke the fibres of the straggle back from the eye and to the sides before bringing the pheasant tail fibres over it and securing with a whip finish and varnish

 

 

This gives you a slightly modern twist to a well established pattern. Weighting can be added in the form of lead wire wrapped at the thorax area before wrapping the straggle.

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Thanks for the SBS. Nice little pattern.