Hi all
In a recent post Shamwari asked me if I would do an SBS on Oliver Edwards' Nymph Skin Caddis. So here it is, it's not a slavish copy but close enough:
Components:
Hook - TMC2457 (or equivalent)
Lead - Hareline sticky sheet lead, a strip about 1.5mm wide
Tail - Natural grizzly hackle (OE uses a philoplume)
Gills - Natural or grey dyed ostrich hearl)
Body - Virtual Nymph nymph skin
Legs - Golden or ringneck pheasant tail
Step 1
Cut a strip of sticky lead about 1.5mm wide and attach towards the rear of the hook. Using butting, not overlapping, turns wind the lead towards the eye of the hook. Leave about 2.00mm behind the eye of the hook and reverse the direction of the lead. Wind the lead back over the first layer of lead and finish 1 turn short of the beginning of the first layer of lead.
Step 2
Start your thread at the eye of the hook and wind it over the lead to the back of the hook.
Step 3
Tilt the hook downwards in the vice to make it easier to work at the back of the hook. Tie in the tail and remove the tag end. Cut the tail short leaving about 2.50mm.
Step 4
Cut off a section of about 5cm of nymph skin. Cut an angle at about 45 degrees effectively creating a long side and a short one. The long side will become the trailing edge when the nymph skin is palmered around the hook. Tie in the nymph skin a couple of millimeters above the tail. Stretch the nymph skin as you go and finish at the tail.
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