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Guides Choice

How do you tie a Guides Choice?

Guides Choice is a nymph fly pattern for Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout. Find its 8 materials and 14 tying steps below.

Difficulty
2 of 5
Target species
Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout, Cutthroat Trout
Pattern designer
Matt Grobert

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At the vise

Materials

  • Nymph Hook, TMC 3761, sizes 10-16
  • Brass Bead, 3.2mm, Gold
  • Thread (140 Denier), Black
  • Pheasant Tail Fibers (tail/abdomen)
  • Pheasant Tail Fibers (wingcase)
  • UTC Ultra Wire, Small, Gold
  • Peacock Herl
  • Partridge Feather

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Tying instructions

  1. Mash barb and slide gold bead onto hook

  2. Start thread one bead-length behind bead, wrap rearward to midpoint between barb and point

  3. Attach 4-5 inch segment of copper wire on near side of hook

  4. Select and align six pheasant tail fibers, measure for shank-length tail

  5. Tie in pheasant fibers on top of shank

  6. Wrap pheasant fibers forward in adjacent wraps to form smooth abdomen

  7. Counter-wrap copper wire in open spiral wraps to rib the body

  8. Trim excess fibers at tie-in point

  9. Tie in peacock herl with stem side facing you

  10. Wrap peacock herl forward to create bushy thorax

  11. Secure with zig-zag thread wraps

  12. Attach Hungarian partridge feather for soft hackle collar

  13. Wrap partridge 2-3 turns

  14. Whip finish behind bead

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