Dress-Down Nymph Hook: Daiichi 1150 or a similar scud hook, sizes 16 to 10. Head: 3/32- or 1/8-inch-diameter gold bead; use a 5/64-inch diameter gold bead on smaller flies. Thread: Black 8/0 (70 denier). Body: Yellow Vinyl Rib colored with an olive permanent marker, natural gray ostrich herl, smoky-olive Sow-Scud Dubbing or a comparable dirty olive-gray dubbing, and gold Mylar tinsel. Legs: Pearl Krystal Flash. Hackle: Hungarian partridge back feather. Collar: One peacock herl. More stuff: Flexament, and Prismacolor bronze (PM-149) and Pantone Tria warm gray (11-T) markers. |