Bead heads nymphs

The red killer micro worm is an alternative at well known squirmy wormy flies. This worm is tied on size #16-20 and works great in water. Soft enough to be vibrant in water and to resist at fish teeth. Another plus is in quality of material, made on a silicone type of gel it is resistant at UV light. That means the fly can hang on the fishing vest without being afraid that the light will disintegrate it.

Materials:

• Hook ST320 #16-20
• Thread: Red any you like
• Body: Micro Wormy Body – killer red
• Bead: Tungsten in metallic red

Yes, it has a strange name 🙂 Pink is more for ladies. We guys are into other colors, we’re not pink lovers…

I started tying this fly for a friend, I didn’t have much faith in it. I have a few extra flies left that I carry with me in the box. At one point I said to try them. I won’t tell you that since then I always have them with me and use them every time. That’s all I can tell you, they have never disappointed me so far 🙂

Materials:

• Hook: Demmon DJS 300BL #12-16
• Thread: Yellow
• Body Thread: Polyfloss pink or light pink
• Ribbing: Perdigon skin in PSMF3
• Thorax: Spectra Dubb in rainbow pink
• Hackle: Natural grey cdc barbs fixed in dubbing loop
• Tungsten: Metallic Pink slotted in 3,5mm for #12 hook

La Peute is of French origin and has become known in the fishing world for its efficiency. Recently (a few years ago), I tied this fly in the form of a nymph. Out of curiosity, to see if it is effective. I was surprised by how many fish I caught. Now I do it frequently and it is indispensable in my box

Materials:

• Hook: #12 Demmon DJS 300BL
• Thread: Yellow
• Body Thread: Olive
• Hackle: mallard body feather
• Tungsten in 4mm copper

A few small tricks : yellow thread it will counterbalance the color of the hook. Otherwise, if you make the body from olive thread directly on the hook, when it gets wet it will become very dark in color, almost black. Then make the hackle fixing the tip of the feather and not the base. In this way you will have a nice collar made of nice and delicate barbs.

Another tip is to take out the barbs from one side: you will obtain a nice collar hackle and not one which is too bushy and messy with barbs orientated in all directions…

It is yellow because the thread used is yellow but the combination between hook color and thread color results in a nice yellow with a touch of light olive. When gets wet is more evident 🙂 . Of course you can make it in brown, pale olive or in any color you like… But for me this color works fantastic.

I love it for its simplicity, for how easy you can tie it and how efficient is. Frankly I’m very happy with this synthetic material used(Troutline Nymph skin), because it replaces the natural peacock quill very well. Beside the high quality resolution printing, it adds an extra feature: the transparency, which is very important because you can play with different underbody colors and shades (provided by different threads) in order to obtain all kind of effects!

Materials used:

• Maruto 46WBL #14
• Thread: yellow 16/0 Veevus or yellow small stomach Veevus
• Body is made of Troutline Nymph skin transparent with brown
• Thorax is made of yellow and olive mixed Mad Rabbit Dubbing
• Hot Spot is made of Orange Veevus Thread
• Bead is made of tungsten in silver color and can be replaced with white bead aswell

Hot Spot Caddis Nymph is a super simple and easy to tie and efficient in the same time. The silver bead imitates the air bubble trapped by insets when they swim at surface. So if you use this type of fly as a dropper fly and you jig it a little bit, you will induce the fish attack much faster compared with a simple drift in water current 🙂

It is a fly fun to tie and catch trout late in July but also in September. I all kind of fish with this model: grayling not so often but trout a lot and barbel too.

I have a few friends who use this green pupa in Austria and they are big fan of it. So, if you like to give it a try please see bellow the tying materials needed:

• Hook Curved – any model you like in size #10-16
• Body Thread: yellow or green – Veevus stomach is what I like mostly
• Body: strip cut to size from Caddis Green Latex Sheet
• Legs: Teal Duck barbs from feathers dyed in ginger
• Thorax: troutline thorax dubbing in dark color

I usually make this fly using Catgut Biothread in caddis green but this time I did it using the new nymph skin. It is a different approach, with dark marks to highlight the body segmentation.

I consider it a good searching pattern which imitates small free swimming caddis. Can be tied as simple as possible using only thread and nymph skin to provide the body silhouette and realistic look. If is needed more sparkle or visibility, then a hot spots can be added behind body or behind bead. Or you can use perdigon skin as underbody to make a discrete but flashy enough hot spot.

• Demmon DHG 903 BL #12
• Under body – green thread
• Body: Synthetic nymph skin transparent grey marked
• Bead:- black nickel tungsten in 3mm
• Legs: -partridge barbs
• Hot Spot – in lower part : perdigon skin Small PSM1
• Thorax: green synthetic dubbing mixed with thorax dubb.

Bellow is a version tied on size #16 hook with hot orange neck:

Materials:

• Demmon DHG 903 BL #16
• Under body – yellow thread and green thread
• Body: Synthetic nymph skin transparent brown marked
• Bead:- black tungsten in 2,5mm
• Thorax: mixed synthetic dubbing in red-brown combined with brown and dark grey squirrel dubbing
• Hot Spot: orange thread

Sometimes you need very small nymphs to fish in super clear waters. Trout and grayling are eating very often some super small flies, something that we cannot see. Probably they are very small mayflies or buzzers or baetis nymphs, difficult to say. Here is a general pattern that I received from a French fisherman who was able to catch trout after trout in difficult fishing conditions. From that moment I use his fly in such situations and I made some variations too.

• Demmon DHG 903 BL #20
• 30DEN or 50DEN thread – white
• Body: Natural quill or synthetic quill.
• Bead- tungsten in 2mm or 1,5mm
• Thorax: synthetic white

Really not a complicated nymph but effective , very effective for trout in early Spring and for Rainbow Trout all season. It seems that pink bead is a great attractant for Rainbow and I noticed lots of interest from this fish. From Slovenia to Poland, this fly is doing his job very well.

It is tied as simple as possible with body made of light grey-cream , tail made of guard fur from hare or from squirrel and thorax made of dark dubbing.

I fish it in strong currents and in deep pools between big rocks -classic places which hold fish.

• Hook: Demmon 903 BL ( size #10-14)
• Thread: white Uni 8/0
• Wire for Ribbing: Silver wire
• Body: Super Spiky Dubbing in natural color
• Thorax: Squirrel Dubbing in natural grey or natural pine
• Weight: tungsten bead – Pink color