Fish it beneath an indicator, or better yet, fish it as a dropper behind a dry fly. Tie this pattern on a No. 14-18 scud hook. Slide a brass bead up against the eye. For the tail, use pheasant fibers.

makes an appearance in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler and remains a standby pattern ... pheasant tail is a deadly sidekick in any double nymph rig. How to Fish This Soft Hackle Fly ...

What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout ... you can simply tie on general-pattern nymph, like a Hair’s Ear or Pheasant Tail, under a strike indicator and cast up and across.

or ant pattern, something that floats well. If you’re fishing a smaller dry, you’ll want to have a lighter dropper fly so it doesn't pull the smaller dry fly under – think pheasant tail, RS2 ...

Patterns like a Woolly Bugger, the Adams and a Pheasant Tail are easy to learn to tie ... You can use the base pattern of an Adams fly to tie a very common fly in the spring called the Blue-Winged ...

I replaced the buzzer with a Pheasant Tail pattern and a fish took that after about 10 minutes. The trout were quite deep as I had to let my weighted fly sink for around 20 seconds. My third trout ...

The Perdigon is a simple fly, but it gets the job done. The Prince Nymph is my go-to pattern when I try to look past the surface of the water and can’t see a damn thing. When water clarity is ...

A few weeks ago, I resurrected a fly pattern that you’ll probably ... Essentially all he did was reduce the existing spider pattern, which had a tail and some other extraneous parts, to its ...

A Mr. Craig, who resided on New Zealand’s North Island, conceived this pattern for casting ... matched pukeko, black pheasant or duck feathers tied back past the tail. To finish the wing ...