{"id":950,"date":"2018-01-29T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/?p=950"},"modified":"2018-02-01T16:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:33:31","slug":"teardrop-nymphs-for-snaggy-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Teardrop Nymphs for Snaggy Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Teardrop

Teardrop Baetis by Barrie Duffy<\/p><\/div>\n

Why Use Tear Drop Nymphs ?<\/p>\n

Well what I was looking for\u00a0 was an alternative\u00a0 to bead head flies but keep the weight to fish deep.<\/p>\n

When I first used tear drops I tied them on the same way as everyone else until one day instead of putting the teardrop with the slot up\u00a0I accidentally put the slot down towards the hook bend.

I accidentally put the slot down towards the hook bend<\/div> I had superglued it in place so there it lay on my desk for weeks…<\/p>\n

One of the rivers I fish regularly is very rough, full of rocks and weeds, so when fishing flies with the hook point down you get caught up if you try to fish deep. When I first saw jig hooks I thought they were the answer to my prayers but it means you have to use bead head flies. So back to that tear drop on my tying desk..<\/p>\n

\"Mounting

Mounting Teardrop on Hook<\/p><\/div>\n

More than once I had knocked it onto the floor and I noticed it always landed hook point up-facing, so I tied a few up for my next trip to the river.\u00a0 The patterns I tied were simple hares ears and pheasant tails.\u00a0 When I tried them out, did I get hung up on the weed covered rocks ? Yes but even less so than when using Jig flies.\u00a0 The beauty of using teardrops is the ability to tie more imitative flies if you wish. I have tied baetis nymphs, stone clingers and stone flies or just hares ears.<\/p>\n

\"Baetis

Baetis underside, as it fishes point up<\/p><\/div>\n

Some hooks I found work well with Tungsten Teardrops<\/a> are Hends BL554<\/a> or Hends BL154<\/a> , pupa hooks and jig hooks. I have also tried klinkhamer hooks for a slightly different shape for stone flies – well worth a try.\u00a0 I now always fish at least one teardrop nymph for euronymphing<\/p>\n

\"Sparkle<\/p>\n

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For more amazing teardrop nymphs check out\u00a0Tungsten Teardrop Nymphs by Barrie Duffy<\/a><\/p>\n

All flies pictured above tied by Barrie Duffy,\u00a0 images\u00a9JoelBarrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Use Tear Drop Nymphs ? Well what I was looking for\u00a0 was an alternative\u00a0 to bead head flies but keep the weight to fish deep. When I first used tear drops I tied them on the same way as everyone else until one day instead of putting the teardrop with the slot up\u00a0I accidentally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[19,21,23,24],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing","category-fly-tying","tag-nymphing","tag-french-nymphing","tag-tungsten-teardrops","tag-barrie-duffy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}