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Post 22 Jun 2017, 22:22 • #1 
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Jellystone Nymph

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Post 23 Jun 2017, 13:02 • #2 
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Well, they'll see it for certain.


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Post 23 Jun 2017, 21:02 • #3 
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And bite it too. The Jellystone is the current version, now some 20 years later, of the Marshmallow Nymph, first published in 1991. Something like that anyway.

http://flies.montana-riverboats.com/?pa ... -Nymph.htm

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Post 24 Jun 2017, 08:24 • #4 
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Nice ! What is the jelly like material you are wrapping around the hook ??

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Post 24 Jun 2017, 08:33 • #5 
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It's any generic bass tube snipped into a slightly rounded taper with scissors, wider at the front and narrower on the back. Skewer it on a horizontal #10 beading needle. Dimple it with thread. Mount it LOOSELY on a hook (so the thread doesn't cut into the soft stuff). Sew in some rubber legs with a wide-eyed rubberleg needle. Soak the bottom of the thorax area with Aleene's Flexible Stretchable water based fabric cement, so it stays put on the hook yet still has no hard spots.

Is bass tube material somehow less a fly tying material than foam?


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Post 25 Jun 2017, 15:38 • #6 
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I got it, Thanks !

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Post 25 Jun 2017, 17:54 • #7 
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Here's the smaller Golden Stonefly version....

http://flies.montana-riverboats.com/?pa ... ne-web.jpg

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Post 14 Jul 2017, 08:40 • #8 
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pittendrigh wrote:
Is bass tube material somehow less a fly tying material than foam?


Not to me it isn't but one sniff of that sweet/anise/garlic/crab/crawler or baitfish scented stuff in some sections of some rivers would be frowned on.


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Post 15 Jul 2017, 14:37 • #9 
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:=)) For those who care the cheap tubes aren't scented.

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Post 18 Jul 2017, 14:16 • #10 
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This pattern on a jig hook. I think I'll try it doesn't funsie. Have you pittendrigh?


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Post 21 Jul 2017, 08:16 • #11 
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Haven't. Good idea.

Here's how I make the rubberleg stitch, into foam and/or bass tube material, using a home made rubberleg needle (with a wide eye....jamb the eye of one needle down onto the point of another and twist)

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Post 21 Jul 2017, 20:22 • #12 
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Hmm I think I see it. The black line being the needles path and the circle what ever material core?


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Post 21 Jul 2017, 20:25 • #13 
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Also I'm certain the Jellystone is a perfect fly candidate to be tied balanced nymph style for it's skeleton skeleton. Can you Invision it P?


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Post 24 Jul 2017, 20:15 • #14 
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So simple and easy even a caveman can tie it - I like it. That golden stone especially. Be a good steelhead nymph here on the wet coast.


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