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Sulphur Nymph
How do you tie a Sulphur Nymph?
Sulphur Nymph is a nymph fly pattern for trout. Find its 7 materials and 19 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 2 of 5
- Target species
- trout
- Pattern designer
- Joe Humphreys
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: Size 12 1x long nymph hook
- Weight: .015 lead-free wire
- Thread: 70 denier brown UTC
- Tail: Mottled hen or pheasant
- Rib: Gold brassie wire
- Body: Tan opossum dubbing mix
- Thorax: Brown rabbit dubbing
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Tying instructions
Secure the hook in the vise.
Wrap the hook shank with 10 turns of lead-free wire.
Start the thread behind the hook eye and build a thread dam.
Wrap the thread back to the tail.
Select 8-10 pheasant tail fibers for the tail.
Tie in the tail, about one hook gap long.
Tie in the gold brassie ribbing wire.
Wrap the thread forward to the thorax area.
Dub the body with tan opossum dubbing mix.
Counter wrap the body with the gold brassie ribbing wire.
Tie off and break off the ribbing wire.
Dub the thorax with brown rabbit dubbing.
Select a pheasant feather and prepare a slip wing.
Tie in the pheasant feather slip wing on top of the hook shank.
Make a few tight wraps to secure the legs.
Trim the butt ends of the pheasant feather.
Form a neat head with the tying thread.
Whip finish with 4-5 turns.
Clip the thread.