Glass beadhead nymphs

[wingman]

I've just been messing about with some different coloured glass beads and came up with these gruesome beasties. I just wondered if anyone might know how to fish these as obviously the beads are much lighter than tungsten beads etc so theyr'e not going to sink at the same rate, I hope they do sink.



Thanks

mark

[falsecast]

Nice Mark. They do look, however, as though they will take forever to sink. You can always tie the same patterns with lead wire underbodies

[wingman]

Originally Posted by falsecast

Nice Mark. They do look, however, as though they will take forever to sink. You can always tie the same patterns with lead wire underbodies

Oops! thanks falsecast, thats what I thought and before I go and make a dozen or so more I think I should lead them like you say to be on the safe side. I suppose they would be ok for just sub-surface in fast low rapids maybe.

[falsecast]

I always have various unweighted nymphs in the box. They can be perfect on the droppers with a tungsten job on point to take them down

[darwin]

Mark,
You did good. I have fished something very similar with good success and no weights.

[bordertroot]

I like these Mark

[roll cast]

Nice flys, try to use the same dubbing but after the first turn of dub thread respin the dubbing tighter to get a more compact body.

Nice

[wingman]

Originally Posted by roll cast

Nice flys, try to use the same dubbing but after the first turn of dub thread respin the dubbing tighter to get a more compact body.

Nice

Thanks Al, I do always respin dubbing while I'm turning it, I wanted a chunkier look to the nymphs so I'm not being too fussy here.
I'll probably make some of these with leaded bodies and some without. thanks everyone for the useful info.

I'm thinking about tying some of these also, these are with tungsten beads, I set the bead slightly back from the eye as an experiment, don't know if it makes any difference or not.

[wingman]

Originally Posted by darwin

Mark,
You did good. I have fished something very similar with good success and no weights.

They're not too bad darwin, I tried wapping them in the sink and they sink pretty well but thats with a good chuck at the water surface.