March Brown Nymph

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A generic nymph tied in the march brown colors.

Pattern type:

Nymph

Skill level/difficulty:

Easy

Instruction:

Start the thread in the front of the hook shank.
Cover the shank half way to the bend.
Prepare a few partridge fibers for the tail. It can be rather long 1-1½ shank lengths, but 10-20 fibers will do.
Tie in the tail and cover to the hook bend.
Tie in the rib at the hook bend. Double the yellow tying thread.
Dub the body very sparsely leaving room for a thorax.
Rib the body with 4-5 turns of doubled thread.
Tie down rib and trim off surplus.
Pick out some very spiky dubbing from the hare skin or mask.
Dub the front part of the fly generously, letting the guard hairs stick out.
Form a small head, whip finish and varnish.

Species:

Materials:

Hook	Wet fly or nymph hook, like an Ahrex FW580 #12
Thread	Tan 8/0
Tail	Mottled partridge fibers
Rib	Yellow tying thread
Body	Hare's wool dubbing, underwool
Thorax	Hare's wool dubbing with guard hairs
Head	Tying thread