Woven Polish Nymphs, 1st attempt

Here ya go, pix of my first serious attempt at tying Polish nymphs, I wove camel brown UNI-stretch over pumpkin UNI-stretch. Overall I'm pretty happy with them, need some more practice though to make them absolutely perfect. Not that the trout care, but I do, Lol. I did one also with DMC embroidery floss (olive-brown back/bright green belly). The embroidery floss is actually is easier to work with.

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Here is a link below from Loren William's website if you want to see how to tie this style of fly, and there is a "Shuttle Weave" tutorial in it that you can click on to see how to do the weave. I still have to learn to do it the way he shows, I do it slightly differently. His fly is textbook perfect, the juncture between the back & belly materials is lined up exactly, very impressive. You will see how hard it is to be perfect when you attempt the weave:
http://flyguysoutfitting.com/wovenpolishnymph.html

Torrey: those don't look so good, why don't you give them to me and I will "dispose" of them. ;)

They look great Torrey, I gotta start learning to tye some.

-kyle

This is definitely one of those "practice makes perfect" type of flies, after I have 100 under my belt I should be very comfortable with the weave by then. I have to learn how to do it with the fly upside down, for some reason I have a hard time doing that, I do it with the fly in the "normal" position.

Nice flies. I have tried tying some of these and I find crochet thread to be alot easier to work with than say uni floss which is the other material Ive tried. I find the hardest part to be keeping the same amount of pressure on the thread while wrapping over or under the body.

Agreed, keeping the proper tension seems to be the most critical part. I used Uni-Stretch because that is what Umpqua uses to tie Vladi's pattern, although in his video he uses embroidery floss, among other materials (wire, etc.). The hook was a #10 Tiemco 2499 SP-BL, a 2457 would be fine too. I tied three using 2 strands of Uni-Stretch for each color, and then I tried 3 , haven't decided which I like better on the #10. Underbody was .020 lead covered with some heavier thread to smooth out the taper. For the DMC embroidery floss, it is a 6 stranded material and 3 strands seemed about right for each color.

For sure you will need to spend a great deal of time to perfect weaves for these flies, did l not post some of my work here last year, if not l will do so again.

You can weave these flies by using two bobbins which are with loaded spools of the material you are using for the body formations.

one tip l will give you here T is this, there is no way you will effect a perfect over body unless the under body is also perfect.
You also have to maintain exact tensions or you will change the structure of the material you are winding as you will tension or twist it and alter its structure during the weave.

Davy.

Bumping this back up. I have been doing a fair amount of tying the last few weeks. I usually weave by hand, but FINALLY decided to try wrapping the materials using bobbins.

NO COMPARISON, so much easier on your hands, etc.

I should have tried this months ago.

What can I say, I am a slow learner.

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Here ya go, pix of my first serious attempt at tying Polish nymphs, I wove camel brown UNI-stretch over pumpkin UNI-stretch. Overall I'm pretty happy with them, need some more practice though to make them absolutely perfect. Not that the trout care, but I do, Lol. I did one also with DMC embroidery floss (olive-brown back/bright green belly). The embroidery floss is actually is easier to work with.


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Torrey,
I made an attempt with some uni=stretch as well. They didn't turn out quite as well as yours though. I'm curious, has anyone tried weaving with antron yarn?

L-

I would think the antron would create too wide a profile. I know in reading and talking to everyone, one of the critical things is to try and keep a slim profile with the wovens. To get the "buggy" effect I have been toying with putting a layer of spiky dubbing as an under-body and then tying a weave that is a bit more loose to allow the dubbing to show.