This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is a Prince Nymph encore.

Prince Nymph | www.johnkreft.com

I featured the Prince Nymph in October 2014, the first year of my blog. It was one of my first TBT flies.

In case you missed it, here is the story I wrote:

It originally was known as the Brown Forked Tail and created by Doug Prince from Monterey, CA in 1941. It’s a great pattern today anytime you want to put a nymph on your leader. The original pattern used black ostrich herl instead of peacock.

I began tying this fly in the 1970’s after finding it in Randall Kaufmann’s American Nymph Fly Tying Manual. In fact, lots of my first nymphs came from that book.

I use it mostly in a size 14, but learned several years ago from a guided trip in NE Oregon that a size 8 can be deadly. I carry both sizes these days. I only use the bead head style. Originally, it was tied without a bead.

Enjoy…go fish!

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Similar Posts

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.