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Atherton Nymph

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Classic Recipe

  • Hook Standard nymph, 12-16
  • Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

  • Tail Furnace fibers (sparse)
  • Body Hare's ear + hot orange blend (dubbed)
  • Rib Oval gold (spiral)
  • Wingcase Blue kingfisher or dyed blue feather (bright flash)
  • Legs Furnace hen (sparse)

How to tie it

  1. Start brown thread and lay a base to the bend.
  2. Tie in a few furnace hackle fibers as a sparse tail, half a shank length long.
  3. Catch in oval gold tinsel at the tail base.
  4. Blend hare's ear with a touch of hot orange and dub a tapered body up to the 65% mark. Rib forward with the oval gold in 5-6 evenly spaced turns and tie off.
  5. Tie in a bright blue feather section (kingfisher or dyed blue) over the thorax area to be folded forward. This blue glint is Atherton's signature.
  6. Dub a slightly fuller thorax of the same blend.
  7. Fold the blue feather forward over the thorax as a wingcase and bind it down.
  8. Tie in a few furnace hen fibers each side as sparse legs sweeping back.
  9. Build a small head, whip finish, and cement.

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