Prince Nymph

Material Needed:
Bead:  I am using a 5/64, 2mm gold tungsten bead.
Hook:  Standard nymph hook, size #12-22
Thread:  Black UNI 8/0.
Tail:  Brown goose biots.
Rib:  Gold wire.
Body:  Peacock herl, or Peacock dubbing.
Legs:  Brown hackle, wrapped.
Wings:  White goose biots.

Place your bead on the hook, and start your thread.

Wrap to the back of the hook shank, and build up a little lump of thread to help keep your goose biots separated.

Select two goose biots, and place them back to back.

Tie them in just in front of your thread lump.

The length of the tail should equal the length of the hook shank.

Trim the tag ends.....

...and tie them down.

Tie in your gold wire rib.

Dub some peacock dubbing onto your thread.

You could also just tie in some peacock herl, and wrap that instead of dubbing.

Wrap your dubbed thread to build up a body.

Wrap your gold wire rib forward, tie it off, and break, or cut it.

Tie in some brown hackle and give 2 or 3 wraps.

Trim the top hackle fibers off.

Select two white goose biots to use as wings.

They should both be facing the same direction, not back to back.

Tie in your wings.  They should be about the length of the hook shank.

Trim the tag ends of the wings.

Apply some head cement directly to the thread.

I use Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails.

Whip finish, and cut your thread.

Barr's emerger

Materials Needed:
Hook:  TMC 2487 size #18-24
Thread:  Black 8/0 uni-thread
Tail:  Black hackle fibers
Body:  Olive dubbing
Thorax:  Black peacock dubbing
Wingcase:  Black hackle fibers
Legs:  Black hackle fibers

Place your hook in the vise.

Start your thread.

Select some black hackle fibers.

No need to measure your tail on this pattern, you will be trimming them later anyway.

Tie in your tail. Do not trim the tag end of the hackle fibers.

Dub some olive dubbing onto your thread.

Wrap your dubbing forward over the hackle fibers.

Pull back the hackle fibers and wrap a few thread wraps in front of them to hold them in place.

Dub some black peacock dubbing onto your thread, and  build up a thorax.

Fold over a clump of hackle fibers from the middle, leaving about 3-4 tag ends on either side to act as legs, as shown.

Tie down the hackle fibers, and whip finish.

Trim the legs on both sides to about the length of the hook shank.

Trim the tail to about the length of the hook shank as well.

RS2 Emerger

I fish this as my bottom fly, usually with something heavier ahead of it.  You will get strikes at the very end of a dead drift, as your line tightens, and the fly rises in the water.

Materials Needed:
Hook:  TMC 101 size #20-24
Thread:  Grey Uni Thread 8/0
Tail:  4-8 blue dun hackle fibers
Wing:  White antron yarn

Put your hook in the vise.  I am using a size #22.

Start your thread, and work your way back evenly to the hook bend.

Select a few fibers from some blue dun hackle.

Tie in your hackle fibers to create a tail.

Clip the tag ends of the hackle fibers, and wrap your thread forward.  Wrap as evenly as possible.

Tie in some antron yarn.  Be sure to leave enough space to build a head without crowding the eye of the hook.

Clip the tag end of the antron yarn, and wrap a few thread wraps behind the yarn.

Wrap a few wraps in front of the yarn to build up a head slightly bigger than the body.

Trim the yarn to a length of about the hook gap.

Whip finish, and apply head cement.

Copper John

The Copper John is an excellent searching pattern.  They can be tied with many different colors of wire.   Red, and chartreuse are very popular.

Materials Needed:
Hook:  Standard nymph hook
Bead:  Copper.  Tungsten, or brass.  (I'm using a size 5/64 bead on my size 16 hook)
Thread:  Black UNI
Tail:  Brown goose biots
Body:  Copper wire
Flash:  Pearl tinsel
Legs:  Mallard flank died black
Thorax:  Peacock, or synthetic peacock dubbing.

Start by mashing the barb, and placing the bead on the hook

Start your thread just behind the bead, and wrap evenly to the hook bend.

Wrap a few times to build up a little bump.

Making this little bump helps to keep the goose biots separated.

Select two goose biots and put them back to back as shown...

Measure your goose biots.  The tail should be the length of the hook shank.

Tie in the goose biots with a soft wrap, followed by a few tight wraps.

Trim the tag ends of the goose biots.

Tie in the copper wire, and wrap your thread to the tail.

Try to keep your thread wraps as even as possible.

Wrap your thread to the bead, and then evenly wrap your copper wire toward the bead.

Tie off the wire, and break, or cut the tag end off.

Tie in your flashback.

I cut an angle in the flash where I am going to tie it in to cut down on bulk.

Dub some synthetic peacock dubbing onto your thread, and wrap to create the thorax.

Select some dyed black mallard flack to tie in as legs.

I like to keep the fibers attached to the stem of the feather as shown.  This way, it is much easier to start over if you mess up.

Tie in the legs....

...and cut off the tag ends.

Fold the flash over the thorax, tie it off, and trim the tag end.

Whip finish.