A few years ago, this Gold Ribbed, Bead Head Hare’s Ear Nymph was a ‘must have’ nymph pattern for the fly fisher. Today, for whatever reasons, it seems to be less prevalent. The creative, innovative fly tier, inundated with a huge amount of new tying materials, fell away from the tinsel, rabbit fur pattern. The only new addition here is the gold bead and some UV dubbing in the thorax with the rabbit fur guard hairs. Still a nice pattern for the stout clinger/crawler mayfly nymph patterns.
That’s kind of you to say Chris. I need to start tying up for the half empty boxes and do more macro shots along the way. I appreciate you visit and nice comment.
I’m with you Kevin…ran low at beginning of Fall so need to tie up quite a few patterns after tying binge in 2012…thanks for the visit and comment. Good tying! Just FYI, SwittersB used to be SwittersB & Fly Fishing…so from 2008 to 2013 there are a lot of great resources.
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Well, your images have got me hooked (ahem) – these are just beautiful.
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That’s kind of you to say Chris. I need to start tying up for the half empty boxes and do more macro shots along the way. I appreciate you visit and nice comment.
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My pleasure, sir.
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Reblogged this on Kevin's Blog and commented:
Too cold to fish, time to tie more flies!
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I’m with you Kevin…ran low at beginning of Fall so need to tie up quite a few patterns after tying binge in 2012…thanks for the visit and comment. Good tying! Just FYI, SwittersB used to be SwittersB & Fly Fishing…so from 2008 to 2013 there are a lot of great resources.
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nice
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Thank you for kind thoughts always!
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