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Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Nymph
How do you tie a Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Nymph?
Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Nymph is a nymph fly pattern for trout. Find its 8 materials and 25 tying steps below.
The Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Nymph is a versatile and effective pattern for trout fishing, imitating a wide range of aquatic insects. It is typically fished as a subsurface fly using dead drift or slight twitches to mimic natural movement.
- Difficulty
- 3 of 5
- Target species
- trout
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: Dai-Riki 285 (3X-long nymph hook), sizes 12-20
- Bead: 7/64-inch, gold
- Weight: .015 lead-free round wire
- Thread: 6/0, olive Danville Flymaster
- Rib: Ultra Wire, brassie size, gold
- Tail and wingcase: 10-12 pheasant-tail fibers
- Abdomen and thorax: Hare's mask and rabbit-fur dubbing, mixed
- Loon Outdoors UV Clear Fly Finish Thick
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Tying instructions
Mash the barb and place the bead on the hook, small hole first.
Secure the hook in the tying vise.
Wrap .015 lead-free wire around the hook shank, starting behind the bead, taking 10-12 wraps.
Trim the wire off close to the hook shank using your fingernail.
Apply a drop of Zap-a-Gap to the hook shank with a bodkin to ensure the wire stays in place.
Push the wire forward into the back of the bead.
Start the thread on the hook shank and take several wraps rearward.
Tie in the gold brassie size Ultra Wire on the near side of the hook and let thread torque carry it to the far side as you take wraps rearward to just above the hook barb.
Get 10-12 natural colored pheasant tail fibers, keeping their tips aligned, strip them free from the stem and cut the little curlies off.
Measure the fibers to form a tail a little longer than a hook gap in length and with a pinch wrap secure them to the top of the hook shank.
Create a long slender noodle of mixed hare's mask and rabbit-fur dubbing on your tying thread that is tapered at both ends.
Take wraps so the dubbing starts right at the base of the tail and continue taking wraps forward to just behind the bead.
Position your thread back to one third the distance from the back of the bead to the base of the tail.
Make open spiral wraps to segment the abdomen of the fly.
Once you're up in the thorax region, take thread wraps to secure the wire and then helicopter to break it off close.
Fold the pheasant tail fibers rearward and bind them down on top of the fly.
Get some more of the same dubbing material and build a thin, fairly short noodle on your tying thread.
Right at that one third point, begin building up the thorax of the fly to the back edge of the bead.
Fold the remainder of the pheasant tail fibers forward to create what will be the wing case.
Secure them with thread wraps just behind the bead.
Pull the butt ends of the fibers up and snip them off close, doing your best not to cut the wing case or the thread in the process.
Take a few more wraps of tying thread, followed by a five or six turn whip finish and then snip or cut your tying thread free.
Finish the wing case with a coating of Loon Outdoors Thick UV Clear Fly Finish.
Use a small UV torch to cure and harden the finish.
Rough it up with a piece of velcro to make the guard hairs stand out more and add bugginess and movement to the pattern.