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PT2. The Dark Olive Pheasant Tail Nymph Fly

Olive Pheasant Tail Nymph use when fly fishing for trout

Olive Pheasant Tail Nymph use when fly fishing for trout Olive Pheasant Tail Nymph use when fly fishing for trout Olive Pheasant Tail Nymph use when fly fishing for trout Olive Pheasant Tail Nymph use when fly fishing for trout Olive Pheasant Tail Nymph use when fly fishing for trout Olive Pheasant Tail Nymph use when fly fishing for trout

PHEASANT TAIL FLY PATTERNS. Hook size 12 14 16 18 - $US each

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PHEASANT TAIL NYMPHS & THE WASHING LINE RIG
The natural Chironomid buzzer or midge suspended from the water surface filmI like using this set up of buzzers and Pheasant Tail Nymphs on droppers when other tactics are not working. Rather than have the point fly at the end of your leader, the largest and heaviest fly to help the leader sink, I tie on a very buoyant booby nymph. This keeps the end of the leader up near the surface. I then tie on a mixture of three buzzers or Pheasant Tail Nymphs each on their own dropper. They dangle down in the water, off the horizontal leader, just like clothing hanging down from a washing line. It simulates buzzers that are nearing the surface just before they reach the top and emerge into adults. I tie the leader onto an intermediate or slow sinking line. In August during a heat wave I went to a local fishery in Southern England. Talking to a few of the anglers on the lake they said that the fishing was slow as expected. They were all fishing deep with three buzzers on droppers tied to a long leader. If I did the same I would get the same results. It was too early for a hatch but I believed that the nymphs might be getting ready for the hatch and moving up through the water. I tied on a 'washing line rig' and sent out my first cast. I caught four times the amount of fish as the other stillwater fly fishermen.

TAILING TROUT
There is a trout feeding pattern that you should always be on the look out for. The tell tale sign is when you see a fish tail popping out of the water. The fish is head down in the weed, sometimes ripping out the weed with its mouth, trying to disturb all the shrimp, nymphs, pupa and scuds that have sort refuge in the weed. This is where they live and feed. This is the only way trout and grayling can get at weed imbedded insects and crustaceans. The fish dive aggressively head long into the weed mass with the object of panicking the residents to make a dash to an alternative place of safety. This is what the fish are after. They start to feed on all the fleeing food forms. Do not cast when you see tailing trout. Wait until the tails have disappeared and the fish are hunting. The harvesting of panicked insect phase is when the fly fisher can make the most impact. Place your Pheasant Tail Nymph in the feeding zone and let it let it drift at the mercy of the current and to tumble about just like the naturals. Give a short sharp strip to imitate them fleeing to escape.

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