Orange Beadhead Nymph with Legs
The Orange Beadhead Nymph with Legs has, as the name suggests, an orange bead head with a pheasant tail. The body is also pheasant tail, wrapped with fine copper wire (Paul uses speaker cable wire in this pattern). As an added twist this pattern also has the addition of rubber legs.
Materials
- Hook: Nymph size 16
- Bead: 3/32 Orange
- Thread: Black Sheer 14/0
- Tail: Pheasant tail or make-up brush fibres
- Ribbing: Fine copper speaker wire
- Body: Any colour pheasant tail
- Thorax: Two peacock herls
- Legs: Dark MFC Mini Centipede Legs
Tying Instructions
- Crush the barbs and put the bead on the hook.
- Cover the hook with thread.
- At the halfway point tie in the tail.
- Starting behind the bead, tie in the copper wire.
- Trim the tips of the pheasant tail.
- Tie in the pheasant tail behind the eye and back to the barb.
- Advance the thread back to the bead and half hitch.
- Wrap the body back to the eye and tie off.
- Wrap the copper wire counter to how you wrapped the body up to the bead. Tie off and trim the wire.
- Tie in the peacock herl by the base and back to the middle of the fly.
- Wrap a substantial thorax and tie it off.
- Tie in two sets of legs.
- Whip finish behind the bead.
- Trim the legs to length.
