Simple Pheasant Tail Nymph

Hook: Mustad 94840 #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tail: Pheasant TailHare’s Ear Plus Chocolate Brown
Rib: UTC Ultra Wire Small Olive

A very simple nymph that doesn’t take much material or time to tie up:

• start with tying in the rib at the end
• dub the hook until the eye
• add the pheasant tail forward
• dub behind the pheasant tail
• drag the pheasant tail back to the end of the hook
• wrap the rib forward to the eye
• tie off

I realized the last time I was in a shallow river that I only had weighted nymphs that went straight to the bottom: tying up this together with some variants on the same theme to not be there again the next time!