Pogo Pheasant Tail Nymph Variant

Pogo Pheasant Tail Nymph Variant

This can be a dropper with a dry fly or another nymph. Strip Strip pause the fly should pogo up and down. That is why it is called a Pogo.

Materials

  • Thread – Black 14/0.
  • Hook – Nymph 2x size 12.
  • Tail – Make up brush fibers
  • Body – Green died Pheasant tail.
  • Rib – Fine silver wire.
  • Wing – case 1mm tan foam.
  • Legs – Orange banded centipede legs
  • Thorax – peacock herl.
One foam without texture colour (bottom-right).

Tying Instructions

  1. Cover hook 2/3 with thread.
  2. Tie in the ribbing.
  3. Tie in tail at the 1/3 point back to just past the barb.
  4. Take 9 or 5 pheasant tail fibres. Cut the and tie in the tips.
  5. Wrap the Pheasant tail to form the body, just 2/3 point.
  6. Tie in the feather there and trim.
  7. Reverse rib the silver wire to the 2/3 point. Tie it off.
  8. From right behind the eye tie in the foam wing case back past the 2/3 point.
  9. Tie in the peacock herl. Create a thorax ending just on eye length back from the eye.
  10. Take your thread back over the herl to the middle.
  11. Tie in two sets of the speckled Centipede legs.
  12. Bring thread back to the eye.
  13. Pull wing case over the herl and tie it off at the eye. Don’t cut the foam with the thread wraps. Trim wing case.
  14. Half hitch or whip finish.
  15. Trim the legs.
  16. Colour tan foam with Touch Bronze Green texture