Guide’s Choice Hare’s Ear
The Hare’s Ear Nymph is certainly among the top five most common patterns for trout fishermen, as its buggy generalist look imitates all manner of aquatic insects. This tricked-out version, by Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions, adds all kinds of fish-attracting bells and whistles, such as a shiny wingcase, a large hackle, and a gaudy orange hot spot.
Materials
- Hook: 2X-long nymph hook size 10-16.
- Bead: Gold, 7/64-inch.
- Weight: 7 turns Lead-free wire – .015.
- Thread: Fluorescent fire orange or just red.
- Tail: Hare’s ear or make up brush fibres.
- Rib: Gold wire.
- Abdomen: Light natural hare’s mask dubbing.
- Wing case: Pearlescent Flashabou.
- Thorax: Peacock herl.
- Hackle: Hungarian partridge.
- Hot spot: Tying thread.
Tying Instructions
1 Crush the barb, add the bead, wrap on the wire.
2 Zap a gap or Sally Hansen’s behind the bead and push the wire forward.
3 Wrap on the thread and stabilise the bead.
4 Cover hook with thread and tie on the make-up brush fibres.
5 Measure the fibres length of hook shank and tie them in starting at the middle of the hook.
6 Tie in the gold wire starting same spot as the tail, wrap back to the bend in the hook.
7 Dub the body with light hare’s ear dubbing.
8 Reverse wrap the ribbing wire. Tie it off at the starting point.
9 Tie in the Flashabou for the wing case.
10 Use two peacock herls and wrap the thorax. Don’t crowd the eye.
11 Tie in the partridge feather by the tips and wrap two or there turns to created the soft hackle.
12 Fold the feathers back and tie them off. Make the hot spot with the thread and whip finish.
If needed, use a hair dryer to train the partridge feathers to fold back.
13 Apply a drop or two of Sally Hansen’s to the head.
