Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Nymph

Detailed instructions for tying a Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Nymph.

Hook: 3X-long nymph hook (here, a Dai-Riki 285), sizes 12-20.
Bead: 7/64-inch, gold.
Weight: .015 lead-free round wire.
Thread: 6/0, olive.
Rib: Ultra Wire, brassie size, gold.
Tail and wingcase: 10-12 pheasant-tail fibers.
Abdomen and thorax: Hair's mask and rabbit-fur dubbing, mixed.

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[thepisgahangler]

I watch your videos all the time, and have learned to tie many from your tutorials!
You are definitely the king of fly tying in my book

[dangradle]

Your one of the best presenters I’ve watched. Videos are clear, visible and cons ice! Very helpful. Thanks

[everest]

Nice tip about torque-ing the wire to the back. Works a treat. Thanks!

[Fizkerlol]

Even as a first time fly tier i was able to perfect this pattern in 5 tries thanks to this video and now I'm tying beautiful hare's ears every night <3

[travismcclellan]

Great video thanks. I'm a self taught fly angler with only 3 seasons under my belt and have been wanting to learn as much as I can about tying, and really like the way you explain all the materials and the process step by step.

[paulsmallriver]

nice to see someone tying these in colors.  Heck yes.  Thanks

[ThomasR]

love the fact how you took time to clarify all those seamingly simple techniques.
I probably have the hang of most of them, but would have much sooner with this video!

great work!

[CarlosGarcia-]

If I had to feed my family, it would be with this pattern and the pheasant tail. Both timeless classics

[tightlinevideo]

It is the end of a Materelli Whip Finish Tool that I sharpened into a chisel shape. I just flip the tool around in my hand when I'm down with the whip finish and cut the thread with the chisel. Works great.

[manifestgtr]

To this day, no nymph has produced more trout for me. You can flashback these, you can give them a little CDC collar, you can use red thread and give them a little hot spot, you can use biot for the tail and tie in the pheasant tail casing afterward, you can do all of the above on one fly…you can have several versions of these with maybe two or three other nymphs and be catching trout year round. They’re just so versatile, customizable and easy to tie…even for beginners.

[RustyShacklefardd]

This is my absolute favorite nymph to tie and fish!

[TheXeniaman]

My favorite nymph pattern. I hardly fish any other these days.

[bakoorvos]

Very practical approach. Pheasant tail makes better tail in my opinion. Brilliant way how you used the entire pheasant tail without cutting it for wingcase!

[hillhurst]

Works well on the Bow River in southern Alberta. Thanks for the vids!!

[tightlinevideo]

For scissors, I like Anvils for everyday tying, particularly the short straight tipped ones. I also have a pair of Rubis Scissors from Charlie Craven with the tips ground to really fine points for dry fly and midge work and they're awesome. You'll also see me using Terra Tools from Wapsi (gold finish) which I use for a whole variety of things.

[MikeBlezien]

As always excellent presentation and tying. Just can't go wrong with the classic. I like that dubbing blend for the HE you use. I will be making up some that for sure.

Mike

[Saksikoipi]

Today I tied 18 of these in 4 colors: natural, olive, dark olive brown and march brown. I substituted the uv glue with normal 5 minute epoxy, which worked well. With additional pearl tinsel it gave a really nice flashback effect.

[Saksikoipi]

One of these, although a simplified version with just ribbing, dubbing and a bead gave me my first fish on a fly last week, it was a nice brown trout about 4lbs or 2kg in weight.

[johnshand]

Works well on the Tongariro River in NZ, Thanks from down-under.

[mattiafenti]

I have to congrat you for all the work that you do to make fly tying very simple, i'm a beginner fly angler and for now i never caught a trout with a fly and i think that thanks to your tying videos i will catch one soon, again thank you and keep on! A big cheer from Italy, Go Devils! ;)