Hare and Copper Nymph – probably our most popular nymph pattern
Hare and Copper The Hare and Copper nymph is probably the most popular nymph pattern used to fish for trout in New Zealand. Relatively easy to tie. It is a favourite of the home tier. It is also possible to make numerous variations with different coloured beads, body shapes, and the like to suggest different insects from mayflies to drowned spinners, More...
Glo-Bug Trout Fishing Flies for Winter Rainbows – Good in the Twizel Canals
Glo-Bug trout row fly complete with blood spot. Glo-Bugs by Allan Burgess At first sight, a pink or orange Glo-bug seems an unlikely trout bait. A Glo-bug is a fly tied to imitate a trout or salmon row. It’s More...
Wiggle Legs Bluebottle Pheasant Tail Nymph for the Twizel Canals
Wiggle Legs Bluebottle Pheasant Tail Nymph Start with strong size 8 hook. Nymphs are often overlooked by anglers new to trout fishing and fly tying. Perhaps the reason is that they are so small alongside a feathered More...
Black Tungsten Bead Head Attractor Nymph
Black Tungsten Bead Head Attractor Nymph The Black Tungsten Bead Head Attractor Nymph is quite simply to tie. It is an effective pattern for deep water fishing. This nymph pattern has proven deadly on big rainbows More...
McDonald Mudeye Nymph – An Easy Fly to Tie Yet Deadly on Trout
McDonald Mudeye Nymph by Dick Marquand McDonald Mudeye Nymph, brown version. Ideally, the body should be flattened. McDonald Mudeye. I can remember a few years ago, cleaning a large trout that I had caught in Lake More...
Creedons Creeper Modified Version with John Hey
Creedon’s Creeper – Modified Version with John Hey Step. 1. Tie in three pheasant tail strands, or whisks, to form a tail. November has arrived! This is my favourite time of the year with the high country More...
How to tie a Chironomid Midge Pupa Fly – Midge Pupa – with Ian Cole
Chironomid Midge Pupa Fly Midge can also be found in some of our backwaters and slower moving reaches of our streams and rivers. Whilst resembling a mosquito in appearance the midge is a non-biting insect of the More...
Giving Life to Nymphs – Wiggle Nymph Damsel, Caddis Pupa, Blood Worm, Snail and Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear
Wiggle Nymph Damsel tied in two sections to simulate movement. Rabbit fur tail and legs also add movement. Impressionist Nymphs with John Hey Let’s look at impressionist nymphs and how to give them life when More...
Horn Cased Caddis Nymph
Horn Caddis Nymph Caddis flies come in many different sizes, colours and shapes. They may not be that glamorous as a trout fly but this larval stage of the insect’s development provides head waters trout More...
The Goldhead Nymph with Wanaka based trout fishing guide Ian Cole
Goldhead Nymph In fishing seasons past the Goldhead caught a lot of fishermen, it seemed to be on the tongues of many! Often, whilst browsing around sports shops assistants would ask “Have you tried a Goldhead?” The More...