Marabou Nymph
Hook: # 10 2x ring eye
Thread: match body colour
Rib: fine wire, some of the best I have found is in small electromagnets.
Body: Olive Marabou, use the longest you can find. Strip about 1/2 inch
off the bottom of the stem and tie it in by the tips over the barb. Move
your tying thread to and leave at the 2/3 position on the hook shank. Spiral
the marabou forward to the thread position on the hook shank, and tie off.
Leave the butt ends of the marabou pointing toward the eye to form the legs/thoraxg
later.
Tail/Body: the 15/20 moose hairs are stacked and the tips are tied in with
the wire rib; so that they extend about 1/4 inch beyond the hook bend, on
top of body, and over the marabou. Continue wrapping the wire in an open
spiral rib over the moose and marabou to form the back. At the 2/3 position
draw back the moose over it's self along with the marabou butts and tie
off the rib, moose and marabou so that they are now pointing back toward
the tail of the fly. Clip off the wire now, as we are done with it, and
the thread is wound to the head.
Wing case: the marabou is now wound on, to form the thorax. Tie it off and
clip away the excess marabou. The moose is layered in over the marabou thorax
to form the wing case. Trim away excess moose and tie off the completed
fly.
The original pattern called for a few of the moose hair butts, to be left
tied back toward the hook point as legs, when finishing the head. I have
eliminated this step and found that the fly does not require legs if the
marabou you use is long enough to breathe in the water. After a fish or
two the moose legs were gone anyway, and the fish didn't care they just
keep chewing.
Calm days
Wally
Wally H. Lutz (WHLUTZ@sas.ab.ca)