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Prince nymph
How do you tie a Prince nymph?
Prince nymph is a nymph fly pattern for trout. Find its 7 materials and 11 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 3 of 5
- Target species
- trout
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: traditional nymph hook #12
- Bead: 3.3mm gold tungsten
- Thread: 6/0 black
- Body: ice dubbing olive brown
- Wire ribbing: medium silver
- Tail: white goose biots
- Wings : ginger goose biots
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Tying instructions
1. Secure hook to vice with bead
2. Lay down body of thread build small taper twords head
3. Attach tail
4. attach wire
5. Build dubbing body stop just before bead
6. counter wrap wire to head and tie it off
7. attach wings
8. Cover wings (wing casing) with more dubbing
9. Whip finish
10. Dab of head cement to secure thread
11. Catch fish !