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Flash Back Nymph Tied by Graeme Neary
Recipe
HEAD
Hook:	# 10 TO 14
Thread	colour to suit
Tail	a few fibres of hackle feather
Wing Case	chrystal flash or fine flashabou
Body	squirrel dubbing
Thorax	squirrel dubbing
Dress the hook. Tie in a few fibres off a hackle feather just above the barb of the hook. Make a thin noodle of dubbing and wind forward making a slightly tapering abdomen half the length of the shank .Now tie in 4 to 6 strands of your choice of flash on top of the shank. Carry on the dubbing to form the thorax ending just before the hook eye. Bring the flash forward over the thorax and tie off. Trim the excess and tie a neat head and varnish same. Pick out dubbing to form legs.