Micro may

Materials Needed:
Hook:  Standard nymph hook #18-24
Thread:  Olive 8/0 uni-thread
Bead:  Copper bead
Tail:  3 pheasant tail fibers
Body:  Stripped, and soaked peacock herl.
Rib:  Fine silver wire
Thorax:  Olive dubbing.
Wingcase:  Turkey tail feather
Legs:  3 pheasant tail fibers on each side.

Start by selecting a strip of peacock herl.

Using an eraser, strip the peacock herl so you are left with just the stem.

Place the stem in some water to soak.

This helps strengthen the brittle stem when you are wrapping your body.

Place your bead on your hook.

Start your thread.

Build up a little bump where you are going to tie in your tail.

Tie in your 3 pheasant tail fibers just in front of the bump of thread.

 Trim the tag ends of your pheasant tail fibers, and tie them in.

Tie in your stripped and soaked peacock herl, along with your silver wire rib.

Wrap your peacock stem first and tie it off.

Counter wrap (wrap the opposite way you wrapped your peacock stem) your silver wire, and tie it off.

Cut a piece of turkey tail feather.  It should be about the width of the hook gap.

I always put some Sally Hansen's on this to keep the fibers from separating. 

Cut an angle to cut back on bulk when you tie it in.

Tie in your wingcase.

Dub some olive dubbing onto your thread.

Build your thorax.

Tie in your legs.

Pull the legs to length, and trim.

Tie in your legs on the other side.  Pull to length, and trim.

Fold your wingcase over the thorax, and tie it down.

Apply head cement to the thread, and whip finish.

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.