Using a weaving technique that I saw Don Freschi (one of the hosts on Sport Fishing on the Fly) use for a chironomid pattern, I built up a really nice looking body, using contrasting colors of chenille and yarn. The effect was great – building up the body really nice. Using foam underneath the weave also helped build up the body, and along with the foam eyes, I hope that it floats!

The basic pattern was something like this:

Hook: #6 streamer
Tail: Olive marabou
Underbody: 1/8″ strip of foam
Body: Medium dark olive chenille and light olive chenille (tried other combinations, including peacock ice yarn, which looked very good)
Legs:
Olive sillilegs and olive partridge rump – wrapped a couple times like a sparse carey.
Eyes: black foam

Here are a couple other variations that I did. The one without the foam eyes also uses a lead underbody instead of foam.

This past January, I met Skip at a weekend seminar that our club helped organize, and he tied and talked about this very effective pattern

There are a couple articles over at Flyfisherman.com by Skip Morris, about his Skip Nymph, some variations including some anatomical variants, as well as how and when to fish them.

• Anatomical Nymphs
• Variations on the Skip Nymph

Gotta tie a bunch myself now!

Materials:
hook: Daiichi 1120 #6-#14
head: brass bead
body: Hareline Dubbin /cream
(other colors: chartreuse, orange, pink)
collar: Peacock herl

Materials:
Hook size: #14 – #20
Brass/Gold bead to match hook size
Body: uni-stretch (color variable)
Thorax: Peacock herl or peacock dubbing

The Brassie is an excellent, and easy to tie fly.Try different colors of wire – copper, brass, red are all effective colors

The Guadalupe Green

The Guadalupe Green looks like it would be a very effective pattern up here – I think that I’m going to tie a few of these in different colors as well.