{"id":835,"date":"2014-11-26T18:21:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T18:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2014-11-28T17:38:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T17:38:29","slug":"the-crooked-river-and-the-tellico-nymph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"The Crooked River and the Tellico Nymph"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking through my fly box recently and realized that I was out of (and hadn’t even fished) a Tellico Nymph\u00a0in a very long time.\u00a0 It used to be a favorite pattern of mine but for some reason I had gotten away from fishing it.\u00a0 Most of us on the west coast haven’t heard of this fly as it was originated years ago in the Southeastern United States.\u00a0 A well known fly back east, it does a great job at imitating a golden stonefly nymph.\u00a0 And, you can be guaranteed that the fish in our local waters haven’t seen this fly before.\u00a0 So, I tied up several a few up a nights ago and Mary Ann and I hit the Crooked River yesterday for a few hours of fishing.<\/p>\n

We got the river about noon.\u00a0 The recent snows were mostly gone and it was a nice overcast day with temperatures in the mid 40’s.\u00a0 Small fish were already rising for BWOs on the surface.\u00a0 Mary Ann picked up several fish on dries but I decided to stay with nymphs.\u00a0 The Tellico Nymph didn’t disappointment me and I picked up a handful of decent fish drifting this fly towards the bottom through the deeper runs.\u00a0 Since I’ve now “rediscovered” this great fly pattern, it will again be a standard in my fly box.\u00a0 Here are a couple of shots from the day, as well as my fly recipe for the Tellico Nymph.<\/p>\n

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The Crooked River<\/p><\/div>\n

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A nice fall rainbow that took a Tellico Nymph.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Tellico Nymph<\/p><\/div>\n

The Tellico Nymph<\/p>\n

Hook:\u00a0 #8 to #12 – 1X Long (Daiichi 1560)<\/p>\n

Lead:\u00a0 15 turns of .015 Lead Wire Underbody<\/p>\n

Thread:\u00a0 Brown<\/p>\n

Tail:\u00a0 Grizzly Hackle Fibers<\/p>\n

Body:\u00a0 Yellow Floss<\/p>\n

Rib:\u00a0 2 Strands of Peacock Hearl with Fine Copper Wire Counter Wrapped<\/p>\n

Back:\u00a0 Turkey Tail Fibers<\/p>\n

Hackle:\u00a0 English Grouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking through my fly box recently and realized that I was out of (and hadn’t even fished) a Tellico Nymph\u00a0in a very long time.\u00a0 It used to be a favorite pattern of mine but for some reason I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,8,79],"tags":[3,46,27,75,4,14,6,34,10],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euronymphing-2","category-fishing-bamboo","category-flies","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-bamboo-rods","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-crooked-river","tag-dave-dozer","tag-euronymphing","tag-fly-fishing","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-mary-ann-dozer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-dt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}