Bead Marabou Nymph

Materials required:

• Shrimp (or curved) hook size 12

• Black 6/0 tying thread

• 4 Black beads

• Black Marabou

Tying:

1. Put 4 beads onto hook and ensure first bead is snug against the eye.

2.  Tie on thread behind the beads and tie in a bunch of marabou and simply tie off.

Tying Tips : This fly can be tied in a great variety of colours and a version with red beads and red marabou is an extremely good blood worm pattern.  Other variations of this extremely simple to tie pattern are olive, yellow and white beads with appropriate coloured marabou.

Fishing the Fly

This nymph is a really lethal pattern and is a fantastic fish catcher throughout the year.  It is extremely effective when fished under an indicator at varying depths depending on where the trout are feeding.  It is equally at home drifted around on the breeze with an extremely slow figure of eight retrieve with the occasional twitch.