Nymphs and pupas

Pheasant tail nymph works well when used to represent the nymphs of the large and small dark olives, iron blue, sepia and claret duns. It is a great killer of trout and grayling on rivers and lakes.

Pheasant tail nymph

Hook: 12-18 a heavy hook

Tying silk: None

Underbody: Copper wire with a hump at the thorax

Overbody: Pheasant fibres wound on with the copper wire and tied fatter at the thorax.

Wing-case: Pheasant tail fibres doubled and redoubled

superpuppan an excellent floating pupa for Sweden's northern rivers. If you are fishing in Kaitumälven is this a fly pattern that you need. It works well as a grayling fly but it also kills trout.

Superpuppan

Hook: 12-14 dry fly eye down

Tying silk: Reddish brown

Body: Yellow, grey, light green or green

Thorax: Brown on the yellow, black on the grey and dark grey on the green

Hackle: Reddish brown palmer style, cut off the hackle on top and under the body

Sedge pupa, when the trout or grayling takes the pupa below the surface.

 

Sedge pupa

Hook: 10-14 sedge hook

Tying silk: Brown or black

Body: Fly rite 40 caddis pupa green, light green, light tan or yellow dubbing

Thorax: Brown or dark grey dubbing

Ribb: Brown or black Tying silk

Legs: soft hackle feathers, brown or blue dun

Underbody: On weighted pupa, copper- or lead-wire

Gold head a fly that kills grayling and trout on those days when the fishing is hopeless with any other fly.

Gold head

Hook: 10-12 vet fly hook

Tying silk: reddish brown

Body: Dark hares ear dubbing. Pick out the dubbing until the fly looks like a brush

Ribb: (Optional) gold