How to Tie the F-C Pine Squirrel Nymph for Fly Fishing

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Ed Story on behalf of expertvillage.com my website is www.feather-craft.com fly fishing. Here we are going to tie the FC pine squirrel nymph it is a pattern a nymph pattern that I introduce almost 50 years ago and even today it is still a favorite trout fly pattern. We are going to mount the hook in this true rotatory vise by locking the hook in the hook jaw, parallel with the shank hooked parallel to the table top and with the back nob on the jaw we will lock it in tight. Then we are going to de-barb the hook with a pair of pliers especially made for that simply by pushing the barb down. I'm might even take that one from the side that didn't push down the way that I wanted to. This is a weighted fly meaning we want to fish it deep. I'm going to use a lead free type wire on the front half of the hook shank to give it weight and that is how we install the wire. We use the back side of our scissors to cut the back of the wire off and our thumb to make it a smooth connection like that so you could hardy see the ends where we tied it in."