What have you tied today?

[Wildfisher]

nymphs, nymphs, nymphs, nymphs, nymphs, nymphs, nymphs, nymphs and more nymphs

heavy nymphs, not so heavy nymphs,  shrimpy nymphs,  lead nymphs, tungsten nymphs .................. is there anything more boring  than tying nymphs? I must be close to the 20KG flight baggage allowance because of these f*****g nymphs.

[Pete]

Fred

I am damn sure it will be worth it

Pete

[haresear]

Nothing tied today. I've been busy threading tungsten beads onto hooks. Got 250 :shock: through the post this morning. Is there an easy way I don't know about?

Alex

[Wildfisher]

here's a few of them

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[Crawhin]

Vary nice Fred. I note the bead-heads are all dark beads - gold and silver to do tomorrow?  :shock: How many years are you planning to be away?   

Cheers,

Ian

[haresear]

Vary nice Fred. I note the bead-heads are all dark beads - gold and silver to do tomorrow?  :shock: How many years are you planning to be away?   

Cheers,

Ian

Seeing as Fred is offline I'll answer for him, Ian.

Let's say we each lose 2 nymphs a day in fish/snags/vegetation, then that is 88 nymphs lost :shock: You can see how it mounts up and we don't want to be tying flies at night if we can avoid it. No doubt the ones we lose will be the ones that are working :roll:
We obviously need a range of sizes and weights as well as colours, but thankfully the vast majority of NZ "mayfly" nymphs are brownish and mostly the rivers run clear except in a spate, so we really won't (I hope) need too many goldheads. We are tying some nymphs with a bit of flash and some pretty sombre ones. We will also have a black permanent marker with us to dull down the krystal flash if needs be.

Alex

[haresear]

Getting somewhere near decent looking.

I'd eat that one.

Alex

[Clan Chief]

I tied up these copper spiders tonight

On the close up flee I deliberately used open turns to create a deep segmented body. Will that make any difference?

[Ian_M]

I think the open turns look great.  Be interesting to see if the troot agree.
And a very neatly tied fly.

[River Chatter]

These wiry spiders look just great! I hope to get some time at the bench (dining room table) in the next few days to have a go at them.