The word nymph has of course two fly fishing meanings. The first is “Juvenile, sexually immature stage of certain insects, usually similar to the adult in form, and which require an intermediate stage before becoming an adult. Mayflies, Caddis flies, Dragonflies, Damselflies, Stone flies and Midges are all insects that spend part of their life cycle in the water and have a nymph stage.” The second which is flies tied to the first i.e. “the nymphal stage of an insects life cycle.I have narrowed down the selection of nymphs that I carry to the list below’. I have extended the population of flies that I carry in my fly box to include flies like Spiders, Carixia and Shrimp flies because I fish them ostensibly in the same way that I fish my nymphs.

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From the above list I choose to carry just these few:

Nymphs

Fuzzy nymph

Black Olive Brown Adams Red Tag

Pheasant tail nymph

Hearl thorax Orange seals fur  thorax

Flashback

Black Brown Olive

Chatto’s Montana nymph variant

Black with red thorax Black with Yellow thorax Black with orange thorax Black with pink thorax

Cruncher

Brown

Chatto’s stick caddis

Yellow head Lime head

Stick fly

Lime thorax Yellow thorax Pink thorax