Sam Wike's Crust Nymph
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PM-1002977
We have actually been tying the crust nymph for a long time. After analyzing how slender mayfly bodies are in the Missouri, we started to slender up the bodies of our nymphs.
We wanted the Crust Nymph to have quite a bit of articulation in the body so we used a turkey biot upside-down, so the curls of the biot create segmentation in the body._x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_One problem with using turkey biots as the body is they aren't very sturdy. They crack fairly easily. We wanted the fly to last a long time, so we added wire to each curl of the biot. This solidifies the body a lot.
Even if the biots do crack a little bit you can just snip it off and the fly stays together. There is a tiny bit of flash on this fly underneath the wing case with ice dub.
We wanted the Crust Nymph to have quite a bit of articulation in the body so we used a turkey biot upside-down, so the curls of the biot create segmentation in the body._x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_One problem with using turkey biots as the body is they aren't very sturdy. They crack fairly easily. We wanted the fly to last a long time, so we added wire to each curl of the biot. This solidifies the body a lot.
Even if the biots do crack a little bit you can just snip it off and the fly stays together. There is a tiny bit of flash on this fly underneath the wing case with ice dub.