Montana nymph - classic

[paul100]

Morning all

I've just been tying some of the above in the black & green with leaded body or gold head beads as these are killers on my local small water. I've enough of the above for a few weeks now so was wondering if anybody has any variant patterns that work well that they'd share with me ?

Thanks in advance of any replies.

Paul

 

[Cap'n Fishy]

I like to put a fluoro red varnish head on mine, and tie some up as 'micro-Montanas' - down to standard 12s...

The micro ones can use black pheasant tail fibres instead of chenille. And the thorax can have pearly chenille.

Col

 

[paul100]

Nice fly Col - I've not got red varnish but I do have Glo Brite thread so will give that a go nice one .

Thanks

Paul

 

[flytire]

 

[paul100]

Thanks pal

 

[Cap'n Fishy]

The bottom one is pretty much what I take to be the original that appears in Poul Jorgensen's Modern Trout Flies, from 1979. I made this copy of the dressing in his book...

He gives the tail as crow fibres.

Personally, I prefer a fluoro green thorax.

Col

 

[kevinmac]

great montanas,they always do the job,well tied m8.

 

[Deleted member 90002]

The purple or middle one looks fabulous as they all do..

 

[philm]

Probably more alternatives than variants but flies like these do better than Montanas for me if they want something black, green and ugly.

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Or how about something like this which Baztek1 posted a few days ago?

 

[iainmortimer]

A slimline version on a grub hook and one with ostrich herl rather than chenille for the body.