Hares ear (nymph tutorial)
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:03 pm
Materials
Hares mask
Partridge feathers
Rust brown thread
We will be tying using a size 12 kamasan B175 hook which is a heavy grade hook and therefore there’s no need for us to weight the nymph,but of course it can be weighted if one chooses. We are not using gold rib wire either.
Tying this nymph “should” be very easy to do,but it’s important to get the shape/proportions right,and this can sometimes be hard to achieve.Get it right though,and the hares ear nymph is the ultimate killer,so with that said,let’s get tying.
Starting off with the thread,catch it in at the eye of the hook and work it down with touching turns to within a couple of turns of the bend,before adding half a dozen partridge feather fibres to form the tail.
We can now run the thread back and forth along the hook shank to form that typical cone shape of a nymph,before finishing back at the tail where we will begin the dubbing.
The dubbing we will be using for the first layer of the body comes from either the very top of the hares mask,or from the cheek. These are much softer fibres that can be dubbed onto the thread easily with dampened fingers,with no need to use wax.
Catch the dubbing in at the tail and work it up to a couple of millimetres from the eye,and then continue back down the body to just past half way,keeping the dubbing thin and tight as you go.
Time to add the thorax cover. This can be done with pheasant tail fibres,but today we are using natural hare,taking the long hairs from near the top of the mask.
The first thing is to make sure we cut the thorax cover fibres long enough. These fibres fold forward to form the thorax cover,as well as forming legs,so they need to be long enough.
Tie the fibres in and make sure the hair ends are facing forward. The fibres should be slightly longer than the tail and well beyond the eye of the hook.
Now we can form the thorax. To do this we are going to use the very coarse hair from the nose of the mask and now would be a wise time to add wax to the thread to help with dubbing.
Work the dubbing very loosely onto the thread and wind over the thorax cover fibres,leaving enough room for the head.
Now we have to separate the legs and pull them to either side before pulling the thorax cover over and tying in.
All that’s left for us to do is to form a big head,whip finish and tidy the look of the nymph.
Ian
Hares mask
Partridge feathers
Rust brown thread
We will be tying using a size 12 kamasan B175 hook which is a heavy grade hook and therefore there’s no need for us to weight the nymph,but of course it can be weighted if one chooses. We are not using gold rib wire either.
Tying this nymph “should” be very easy to do,but it’s important to get the shape/proportions right,and this can sometimes be hard to achieve.Get it right though,and the hares ear nymph is the ultimate killer,so with that said,let’s get tying.
Starting off with the thread,catch it in at the eye of the hook and work it down with touching turns to within a couple of turns of the bend,before adding half a dozen partridge feather fibres to form the tail.
We can now run the thread back and forth along the hook shank to form that typical cone shape of a nymph,before finishing back at the tail where we will begin the dubbing.
The dubbing we will be using for the first layer of the body comes from either the very top of the hares mask,or from the cheek. These are much softer fibres that can be dubbed onto the thread easily with dampened fingers,with no need to use wax.
Catch the dubbing in at the tail and work it up to a couple of millimetres from the eye,and then continue back down the body to just past half way,keeping the dubbing thin and tight as you go.
Time to add the thorax cover. This can be done with pheasant tail fibres,but today we are using natural hare,taking the long hairs from near the top of the mask.
The first thing is to make sure we cut the thorax cover fibres long enough. These fibres fold forward to form the thorax cover,as well as forming legs,so they need to be long enough.
Tie the fibres in and make sure the hair ends are facing forward. The fibres should be slightly longer than the tail and well beyond the eye of the hook.
Now we can form the thorax. To do this we are going to use the very coarse hair from the nose of the mask and now would be a wise time to add wax to the thread to help with dubbing.
Work the dubbing very loosely onto the thread and wind over the thorax cover fibres,leaving enough room for the head.
Now we have to separate the legs and pull them to either side before pulling the thorax cover over and tying in.
All that’s left for us to do is to form a big head,whip finish and tidy the look of the nymph.
Ian