A couple of posts ago I reported on staying home from work to tie a few flies. I had tied a dozen beadhead nymphs days before with a Hungarian Partridge skin, and wrote about that here. The morning I played hooky, I wanted to tie a dozen smaller nymphs.
I chose a Mearns Quail skin. It is smaller than a Hungarian Partridge, or at least this sample of a hen skin is. Both are called "upland birds", and have a similar feather structure. All I needed was one or two of these smaller feathers to tie a nice fly on a size 12 2xl hook. The results varied somewhat depending on the size of each feather, and depending on whether I tied with or without a tail. The hook used was a size 12 Mustad 72R.
Use the same tying technique as described in the Partridge beadhead nymph step-by-step procedure here.
I chose a Mearns Quail skin. It is smaller than a Hungarian Partridge, or at least this sample of a hen skin is. Both are called "upland birds", and have a similar feather structure. All I needed was one or two of these smaller feathers to tie a nice fly on a size 12 2xl hook. The results varied somewhat depending on the size of each feather, and depending on whether I tied with or without a tail. The hook used was a size 12 Mustad 72R.
Use the same tying technique as described in the Partridge beadhead nymph step-by-step procedure here.
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| The Mearns quail rump feathers are perfect for a size 12 2xl hook, like the Mustad 72R. I used one feather for the one on the left. I used two feathers (tip 1/2 only) to make the one on the right. |
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