{"id":5949,"date":"2025-11-17T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-26-nov-2025-pheasant-tailed-nymph-and-blue-collared-pheasant-tail-nymph\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:02:45","slug":"fly-tying-26-nov-2025-pheasant-tailed-nymph-and-blue-collared-pheasant-tail-nymph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-26-nov-2025-pheasant-tailed-nymph-and-blue-collared-pheasant-tail-nymph\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly Tying 26 Nov 2025 – Pheasant Tailed Nymph and Blue Collared Pheasant Tail Nymph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Below are the recipes and some links for viewing, these are for the fly tying that was led by Lachy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pheasant Tailed Nymph<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unweighted version<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hook<\/strong>: Hanak H 230  or H 280 or sturdy wet fly hook sz 12 (but can go down to sz 20). Tiemco TMC 100SP-BL also works well<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weight<\/strong>: lead wire optional or use unweighted as a dropper with a weighted nymph or split shot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thread<\/strong>: brown or rusty coloured thread in 70 Denier. I prefer Brown Semperfli nano silk in 50D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tail, Abdomen, Wingcase and Legs<\/strong>: Natural Pheasant Tail fibres<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thorax<\/strong>: Peacock herl<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rib<\/strong>: Copper wire in size 0.2mm or UTC Brassy size<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video link – can be used as a guide: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jXG_0bcrWBE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blue Collared Pheasant Tail Nymph (aka The Blue Ninja)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hook<\/strong>: Dohiku HDJ in size 14, 16 and 18 or your preferred jig nymph hook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bead<\/strong>: Copper coloured tungsten bead. Normally go 3.5mm on sz 14, 3.0mm on sz 16 and so on. But it also works well sizing up the bead on a smaller hook eg 3.5mm bead on sz 16 hook, 3.0mm bead on sz 18 and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tail<\/strong>: Coq de Leon (CDL) preferably in Ginger Speckle, but any CDL will do<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rib<\/strong>: Copper wire in size 0.2mm or UTC Brassy size<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collar<\/strong>: Uni mylar 1\/32\u201d in Holo lt Blue, alternatives Semperfli Holographic Tinsel 1\/32\u201d in Kingfisher colour, or Wapsi\/UTC Holo Tinsel medium in blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resin<\/strong>: Solarez UV bone dry thin or your preferred thin, clear UV resin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video link – mine uses slightly different materials and works well in our region but this is a useful guide: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RHu1eTdqeR0&t=104s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keyword wetfly nymphfly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below are the recipes and some links for viewing, these are for the fly tying that was led by Lachy. Pheasant Tailed Nymph Unweighted version Hook: Hanak H 230  or H 280 or sturdy wet fly hook sz 12 (but can go down to sz 20). Tiemco TMC 100SP-BL also works well Weight: lead wire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly_tying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aQnH-1xX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}