TTN!

I sat down at the fly tying desk the night before last and had a think of what I could use the tungsten tear drop thorax beads for, having had no luck previous! After a bit of playing around I came up with this... which took 7 out of my 8 fish on the river Taff this morning!

Thread: Trico 17/0
Hook: Partridge SLD 14
Bead: Tungsten tear drop
Tail: Coq De leon - light
Shellback: Med Mirage pearl
Body: Olive blob tail
Thorax:Olive/natural hears ear
Thorax/bead cover: Pheasant tail



Attach a bead to a hook suitably sized hook



Attach your thread at the eye of the hook **infront of the bead**.

Tie in a few strands of pheasant tail for the thorax cover, and push the bead over the thread (back to the eye) and lift up, then take the thread back behind the bead...



Press the bead back down onto the back of the hook, and pull over the Pheasant to give a nice cover over the bead.



Place a small amount of glue or varnish into the gap of the bead to give it that bit of security.



Top view



Run the thread back down to the bend of the hook and tie in a few strands of CDL for the tail, then back up to behind the bead.



Choose your colour of blob tail for the body.. I chose Olive...



Tie in a piece of medium pearl mirage and two strands of olive blob tail, run the thread down to the tail and back up creating a tapered effect to compliment the bead.



Pull the pearl over the back, making sure it stays neatly on top of the hook.



And run the blob tail over the pearl and up to the bead.

For the thorax, mix two colours of hears ear, natural and olive..




and attach them to the thread.



Tie in, and rough out if necessary




tbc...

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And the finished fly :-



and its family...









Hope that hit the spot... Kieron

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Nice and easy looking, never seen one of those beads before, looks really good. I do like your hawain skirt 3rd pic down

It Doesn't fit no more, I thought Id better find a use for it!!

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Lovely looking nymph there kieron and good step by step well done
Do you want to swap a few for my best bug
I will pm you what it is

I would put it up here if my camera was any good Im getting a new one so i can put a few step by step up

Hi Kieron,

excellent flies and a good innovative use of the Tungsten- I'd prefer them on a hook size smaller (but that's personal preference). Maybe the tungsten won't fit?- Good top fly on a Czech nymph rig or even middle dropper fished near the bottom I think. Jobs a blinder- I might have a go.

Regards Jonathan.

Himalayan Fly Fishing in Paradise on Earth

thats got a killer profile would love to see how it would look with the PT tied in reverse, and the stray barbs pulled back over as legs like a conventional PT nymph.

Slobbering over those beads, where did you get them????
Nice flies to by the way

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I wouldn't mind Ter!

Hi Jonathan,

It works a treat on the french leader in fast/shallow water! I guess with this bead on a smaller hook it would be harder to tie on, because of its profile, the thread seems to slip off the tapered end... one of my reasons for the pheasant over the back, as it gives a bit of a 'platform' to tie on.

Im on it!

Kieron

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I've got some tear drops and I've been looking for inspiration and this pattern is it!

Where do you get blob tail from and what is it?

Jonathan

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