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Nyman's Shop Vac

Nymph · Trout · Intermediate · 4 versions

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Curved caddis/scud hook (e.g. Daiichi 1120 / Dairiki 135), 14-18
  • Thread Black 8/0

Materials

  • Gold bead Gold bead (1 (matched to hook))
  • Pheasant tail fibers Natural pheasant tail fibers (abdomen)
  • Fine wire Copper wire (rib)
  • Zelon / Antron White poly yarn (wing / gill flash)
  • Peacock herl Natural peacock herl (thorax)

How to tie it

  1. Slide a gold bead to the eye, start black thread, and tie in fine copper wire at the bend.
  2. Tie in a few pheasant tail fibers by the tips and wrap them forward as a slim abdomen to the 70% mark.
  3. Counter-rib with 4-5 open turns of copper wire and tie off.
  4. Tie in a short tuft of white Zelon over the top just behind the bead as a wing/gill flash, trimmed to about a third of the shank.
  5. Tie in one or two peacock herls and wrap a small thorax between the Zelon and the bead.
  6. Whip finish behind the bead and cement.

Other versions

3 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 1, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 2, Fly Fish Food Tie, variant 3.

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