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In fast flowing water or where you just want your nymph to stand out a little a Flash Back nymph is an option. Whilst this nymph is not tied to represent the nymphal (sub imago or pupa) stage of any specific insect it is a good “buggy” looking fly and readily accepted by trout. I generally only carry flash back nymphs in size #10 and #14 but you could carry larger and smaller versions if required.

Nymphs should be fished in the current with as little line drag as possible, can be retrieved at various speeds or can be fished on the drop or through the lift. General form and colour together with presentation and how you fish them will help you fool the fish into thinking that they are something that on the trouts shopping list.

Materials

Process

A	Wind the thread in touching turns one third of the way down the hook. Understanding hooks I like to add a little weight to most of my nymphs so that they have just a little negative buoyancy. For a size #10 nymph tie in a length of .015 lead wire and take 5 touching turns of the lead wire toward the eye of the hook. Three wraps for size #12 and just two wraps for size #14. Adding weight to a fly Continue winding the thread to the bend of the hook. Tie in a length of copper or silver along the rear two thirds of the hook shank down to the bend of the hook. Tie in a tail about two thirds as long as the hook shank. Resist the temptation to make the tail too bulky. Other types of tails

B	Dub on a body starting at almost nothing and gradually increasing in width along the back half of the fly. I like to take one or two turns of the dubbing behind where the lead wire is tied in. Single strand dubbing technique

C	Wind the wire along the body of the fly forming 4 or 5 segments. Making body segments on flies Tie the copper wire off at the two thirds point and trim the excess.

D	Tie in the wing casing material in just behind where the wire segments finish. Hold the back material out of the way and dub on a thorax making it about 1.5 times as thick as the body.

E	Pull the wing casing  material over the top of the fly and whilst holding it tight  tie it off just behind the eye of the hook. Trim the excess wing casing material whip finish and varnish the thread. Use a piece of Velcro to gently stroke out some of the thorax dubbing to represent legs.

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