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Notes: Euro Nymphs are generally a nymph with an oversized tungsten bead and some leadfree wire behind the bead. They are tied on wide gap competition style hooks, particularly jig hooks, utilizing a sparse amount of body materials. The focus of Euro Nymphs is to sink fast to the slower currents of the bottom and stay there throughout the drift. The patterns are tied with a broad range of bead sizes to accomodate a variety of water speeds, depths, and types of water. This chart will assist you in selecting the proper bead. To keep track of the bead weight that is being used, some will color code their flies with a thread collar. Within the above chart, you could use Orange thread for the lighter beads, Red thread for the medium beads, and Dark Brown thread for the heavy beads. This will give you three weight possibilities for each hook size. Another method is to purchase a gram scale (0.01g accuracy). These scales cost only about $20.00 and will give you an accurate weight for the nymph rig you use. I have many euro nymphs listed within the Fly Fishing the Sierra flybox such as Egan's Iron Lotus, Rainbow Warrior, and his Frenchie; Walt's Worm, Olson's Blowtorch, Perdigon, and TP's Skinny Nelson. These are streamlined and heavily weighted to reach the bottom fast. The patterns could represent mayfly or caddis nymphs or just an attractor. Other patterns such as weighted eggs, heavy stoneflies, weighted San Juan Worms or Squirmy Wormies and Mops are also used within the Euro nymph rig. The heaviest fly can be either as a point fly or a dropper depending on how you wish to present the rig within the water column. I like to keep my heaviest fly on the dropper so that both flies are bouncing off the bottom. 3 fly rigs often end up with a lot of control issues (tangles), so I try to stay with a simple 2 fly Euro rig. This is tightline nymphing. a 3 or 4 weight rod that is 10 to 11 feet long is ideal. |
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