Hendrickson Nymph

[RileyVacinek]

This is a question directed at Nick only because Its about his tutorial but anyone can feel free to help me out. On the tutorial you show a picture of a hendrickson nymph and as far as a i can tell the two tails are farely short as compared to many other nymphs and they are a dark brown color. The tail however on the fly is significantly longer and lighter. Instead of the light mallard flank I think you used. I used a darker color I got at the store but I figured you had reasoning for the way you tie it.
Thanks,
Riley

[RileyVacinek]

This is my nymph I tied yesterday. This is my first ever not streamer/egg fly so im not even sure if its good. Dubbing is hard ha. I didnt have the brown color needed so I used a more olive tone of brown. I did not have wire either so I used something I found laying around.
(I used my cell phone for this picture because it took a better picture than my point and shoot! haha)

[cluster]

that'll work.

[DEGallineau]

Yeah Riley, it's pretty good and should work. If you tie in the tail about 2/3 - 3/4 the length of the body and a little sparser it would probably imitate a little better. Also..... I find that the nymphs have an olivish hue to them so brown dubbing with an olive mix will be good. That's how I've tied mine for 35 years and they work well.... just my $.02

-ff

[RileyVacinek]

thanks guys I will definitely get better as i get smarter about the reasoning for certain things.

[Tony Medina]

Good looking fly man.

First non streamer/egg eh?

Now you gotta dive right in to tying dries man. Good stuff

[K_Bruce aka Phisherman]

I think Nick flattens it with pliers. Either way, looks pretty nice!!!!

[alexp]

just one tip, it looks like you cut the ends off the mallard or wood duck that you used for the tail just try to get them all pretty close and keep the tips, it looks more natural but other wise nice tie