Fly Fishing Gear | Nymphs

New Zealand's most-used nymph, with a trigger added Hare's fur ribbed with copper wire has been catching trout since the early 1900s, and it stays ...

The bead that stays orange when everything else goes grey Fluorescent pigments do something ordinary paint cannot: they hold their own colour whate...

CdC on a sunk fly, which is less common than it should be CdC is thought of as a dry fly material, but the same barbules that trap air also trap ti...

Get this fly up in front of fish with a good presentation and there is a pretty good chance they will eat it Tied on a Tiemco 2457 super strong c...

Pick the bead size, and you have picked the depth The size range does more than change the fly's dimensions. A 4mm bead on a size 10 is a bomb that...

A Spicy snack for any big trout Half-Grubby, half-nymphy, half-caddisy add up to all the way delicious. If you're after the right profile for a sli...

A Spicy snack for any big trout Half-Grubby, half-nymphy, half-caddisy add up to all the way delicious. If you're after the right profile for a sli...

A Spicy snack for any big trout Half-Grubby, half-nymphy, half-caddisy add up to all the way delicious. If you're after the right profile for a sli...

Fill a box full of these, and you can't go wrong. When the mayflies go off, reach for the Category 3 Pheasant Tail Southside BTB for your next fly ...

The classic pheasant tail nymph revamped and just as deadly. The Category 3 Pheasant Tail Northside BTB is a variation on the tried and tested phea...

A pheasant tail that stopped pretending to be subtle A plain pheasant tail is an imitation. Add legs, UV dubbing and a flashback and you have somet...

Tactical means you get the weight you actually asked for The word gets used loosely, but on a nymph it means something specific: a slim profile, a ...

Drift it, swing it, drag it or bomb it Some nymphs only work one way. This is not one of them, and that is the argument for carrying it: the same f...

A trigger in the body, not on the head This is the odd one in the family and the most useful on tricky water. The hare's fur is blended with UV fla...

A spot of red, for the reason nobody can quite explain Trout show a persistent liking for a touch of red on a nymph, and the red tungsten bead puts...

Another Pheasant tail variant with ice blue dubbing in the thorax This is the gold tungsten bead version. A firm favourite with trout worldwide. T...

Another Pheasant tail variant with ice blue dubbing in the thorax This is the black tungsten bead version.A firm favourite with trout worldwide....

Two white biots, and nothing in the river looks like that The white goose biots laid along the back are what make a Prince a Prince, and they are t...

For slow water, where the fish gets a long look Fast water forces a quick decision and a fish will take something imperfect. Slow water does the op...

Most nymph boxes are two sizes too big Small dark mayfly nymphs make up more of what a trout eats than anything else in the water, and they are con...

Named Hoover, because it sucks up every fish in the stream Tied on a Tiemco 2457 super strong curved nymph hook with a wide gape. Curved wide gape...

Named Hoover, because it sucks up every fish in the stream Tied on a Tiemco 2457 super strong curved nymph hook with a wide gape. Curved wide gape...

Named Hoover, because it sucks up every fish in the stream Tied on a Tiemco 2457 super strong curved nymph hook with a wide gape. Curved wide gape...

The standard, and still the one that gets the first cast Gold is the bead most nymphs are built around, and there is a reason it has not been displ...