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Charcoal Nymph Tied  By Carmen Muller
Method: This fly was originally designed as a still-water wet fly. For matching the hatch, fish it when the dark-winged flies are on the water. Use a floating line, and fish the nymph just under the surface with an extremely slow retrieve. When no surface activity is obvious, fish the Charcoal Nymph deep and very slow. In streams the black duns are much scarcer, but other dark mayflies take their place. Use a weighted thorax version of this nymph for fast water. Cast it upstream with a floating line and dead-drift it back.
Recipe
Hook:	Size 10-14, down-eye
Thread	Black 8/0
Tail	Black cock hackle fibres.
Body	Charcoal Antron ribbed with fine copper wire. At the thorax, wind in three turns of fluorescent magenta rayon floss.
Thorax	Dubbed black seal's fur
Wing cas	B lack cock hackle fibres.
Notes: This fly was invented by Bill Hansford Steele  in 1975
Recipe taken from Flies for South African Waters by Bill Hansford-Steele