nymph

Nymphs are weighted insect imitations used by fly fishermen to induce fish to eat. They're also a fantasy woman every fisherman hopes to meet around the next bend, clad in revealing clothing, immune to the drone of mosquitoes, and looking for a real outdoorsman versus the metrosexual bar trash she's accustomed to encounter.

Aquatic insects spend years wandering around the streambed before exploding into a terrestrial insect. Fly fishermen tie imitations out of animal fur and feathers - weighted with lead wire or brass beads, and drift these into the fish's likely holding water.

Nymph fishing is a means of prospecting for fish that are largely invisible, relying on the fly to get down to their level encouraging them to eat.

What fishermen fail to consider is that should they actually meet their fantasy, while she sunbathes fetchingly - they'll make a poor first impression, what with fish guts and perspiration pre-announcing their presence.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nymph”

• Winter Fly Fishing in the Smoky Mountains

  
  R and R Fly Fishing — Authority: 104
  Winter has certainly arrived in the Smoky Mountains with the first significant snowfall of the year. We got a few inches of snow here in Townsend, but there was more only a short distance away in the national park. Charity and I took the kids out for a romp in the snow but didn’t get any fishing in. Snow always ...
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• Critiquette’s Christmas Books Wish List

  
  Ask Miss A — Authority: 476
  The following are books that I hope to read in the last week of 2009 and the first few months of 2010. Add them to your holiday wishlist, too! You can also just read The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2009 . . . I sure did.1. The Art Student’s War, by Brad [...]
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• Do People Featured On Dating Sites Have Stds?

  
  Dating Tips and Advice — Authority: 147
  I want to try internet dating services, but I’m worried that there are lots of nymph or scanky hoes that will give me a STD. I’ll definitrely be sure to use a condom, but has anyone used a site like fling or adultfriendfinder and was it a good experience?>
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• Tying the Carey Special (Stillwater Dragon or Caddis Imitation)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  This a great stillwater pattern popular in the Pacific NW and B.C. and for all I know beyond. I have never fished it for stream born insects but imagine it could serve well as an October Caddis. The dubbed body can be replaced by a wound body of yarn, chenille or the classic…peacock herl. The hardest part of the fly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fishing Still Good in the Smokies But the Weather is Cooling Down

  
  R and R Fly Fishing — Authority: 116
  After a weekend of guiding in the Smokies we’re still happy to report the fish are still active. In fact, we pulled a good number of fish up to the surface on dry flies. On the other hand, it doesn’t look like the tailwater situation will get any better in the near future hear in East Tennessee. Little Dun ...
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• Salvia coccinea

  
  Natural Gardening — Authority: 128
  Salv ia is an excellent genus from a wildlife gardeners point of view. The flowers of most of the species that Ive grown (with the exception of an annual bedding plant) provide nectar for bees and butterflies of all sorts, as well as ruby-throated hummingbirds. Some of them, such as S. guaranitica (Brazilian ...
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• Fly Fish Streams in the Smokies; Tennessee and North Carolina Tailwaters are All Running High

  
  R and R Fly Fishing — Authority: 116
  This is a rare event, but fishing on area tailwaters is pretty tough right now. Everything from Middle Tennessee to Western North Carolina is either generating a ton of water or spilling to reduce reservoir levels. The creeks are definitely the place to be. While the mountain streams are running a little high, ...
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• Fish the Flies the Guides are Using: Subscribe to Our Fly of the Month

  
  R and R Fly Fishing — Authority: 116
  “What are they hittin’ on?” That’s what fly fishers want to know. We get several emails every week asking us for our fly recommendations. Now you can use the same flies that the guides at R&R Fly Fishing are using. Each month we’ll send you two or three flies from a pattern we’re using in the ...
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• Two Minute PTN

  
  The Daily Fly Paper Blog — Authority: 118
  I’m not 100% sure, but I have a feeling this tuber is Charlie Cravin. He definitely has the speed to bang out 24-30 flies per hour. Anyways, I always enjoy seeing flies tied fast, and flies tied well. Whoever is behind the 2-minute series, seems to know what they are doing. Hopefully there are move [...]
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• Time to Tie the Flies

  
  R and R Fly Fishing — Authority: 116
  Waters have receded and streams are fishable in the Smokies, but it’s that time of year when I start tying the flies. When most tyers sit at the vise they’ll tie a few of their favorites, then go fishing or do something else. When I sit at the vise I don’t leave until I’ve tied at least a dozen. A few hours ...
  3 weeks ago

• Czech or Polish or Caddis Larva (The Attractive Curved Shank Hook)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  TYING A CZECH NYMPH~SCUD PATTERN~CADDIS LARVA I like to tie in the plastic over lay at the rear and pull it forward and tie off behind the eye of the hook. I have never adapted to ribbing front to rear for this pattern or like the Elk Hair Caddis, which you sometimes see ribbed front to rear. Aside from that, this ...
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• Stonefly Nymph Tattoo!

  
  Fishing Fury — Authority: 126
  This is one of those tattoos that most people may not recognize as being fishing related, unless of course you are a fly fisherman.Tattoo by Dave Allen of Sugar Shack Tattoo in Kincardine, Ontario Canada.Both Scott Duncan and David Allen at Sugar Shack are top notch artists who love to fish. If you are looking [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Fly Tying the Pupatator (Bead Head Pupa……Jack Hagan Pattern)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  This originally a larger bead head pattern in the size 10 range that was run through riffles and runs for trout or when larger, the steelhead. Fished like a traditional nymph beneath a strike indicator, it catches fish year round. Here, I have tied it smaller than the original pattern. I tied it smaller and therefore ...
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• Fly Tying…the Dredging Pupa (Chuck and You Better Duck)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  The pattern is a heavily weighted and meant for lobbing and dredging on a short, controlled drift..ala Czech Nymphing. The fly possesses all the weight required to sink to the bottom of any deep drift. I did not weight the hook, but instead bought hooks with molded lead (they come with titanium). Such hooks are ...
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• Wood-Nymph Seeks Centaur – My Interview With The Fabulous Francesca Lia Block

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 482
  Botticelli – Pallas & The Centaur Just the other day, I was raving on re how wowed out i was/am ( The Ultimate New Dating Book For The Auspicious Aqua-Weirding ) by the premise of Francesca Lia Block ’s Wood Nymph Meets Centaur .  It’s a mythological dating guide, using the archetypes from ancient legend ...
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• The Ultimate New Dating Book For The Auspicious Aqua-Weirding?

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 482
  There are dating books (like, ‘don’t fart during dinner and nor should you date peeps whom bore you to hell and back as it gives you premature mortality’) and then there are books like this one WHICH I HAVE NOT READ YET and yet I wanted to…I LOVED The sound of it… It is all about how there are Satyrs and ...
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• Tying a Dark Nymph w/ Beard

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  This is a nice nymph pattern I have tied for years. Size 14-16 hook, 8/0 black thread. Dark dun hackle barbs are used for the tail and the wingcase. A copper wire rib is tied in at the bend. A dry fly quality dun hackle is tied in at the bend by the tip and tightly palmered up the shank of the hook in the abdomen ...
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• Am I Dating A Werewolf? And Other Questions For Francesca Lia Block [Flesh For Fantasy]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 810
  You may scoff at the mere idea of a dating guidebook. You may almost certainly scoff at one that matches people by their mythological creature -type. I did too at first, and I have a professional astrologer on speed-dial. But Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur is by Francesca Lia Block — an author whose 24 ...
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• 10 Walks To Beat the November Blues

  
  Today from The OBE Community — Authority: 429
  Good morning. As the darkness of Fall sets in, so does my urge to lay on the couch and moan. Obviously, this is not a solid use of time to pursue on a daily basis. So, one of the things that we, as a... This is a summary of the daily post at Ourbigearth.com. Click on the headline to read the whole story.
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• Lil’ Grey Nymph (So Simple You’ll Ignore It….Don’t)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 137
  At first blush you would discount this pattern as too simple to be worthy or effective. I understand the more adornments seems better. But, this pattern has REPEATEDLY proven itself on stillwaters and streams. I have taught fly tying to beginners over the years. After the Woolly Worms, Elk Hair Caddis, Hare’s Ear ...
  5 weeks ago

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