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 Spiders because they are an alternative representation for what we traditionally think of being a nymph representation.

Have a look at a full list of spiders featured on this web site:  QUICK LINK

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

Partridge and orange spider

Orange body, copper rib and gray partridge hackle.

Partridge and chartreuse spider

Chartreuse body, copper rib and gray to brown partridge hackle.

March brown spider

Dun brown body, gold rib and a brown partridge hackle.

Pink spider

Pink body with silver rib an a gray partridge hackle.

Caddis spider

Gray body body, copper rib and brown partridge hackle.

Greenwells spider

Yellow body, copper rib and Cocky d bonddu hackle.

Dark magic spider

Black body, silver rib and peacock herl thorax and black hackle.