The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
March Brown, Green Drake, Isonychia and 5 others
Easy - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
If you want to tie a proper prince nymph, the materials and substitutions above should be what you do. However, there are several variations that are shown below and we’ll include the recipes below. YOu can variate on this pattern a lot and sub in materials, but what makes it “prince” like is usually some incorporation of goose biots for the tail and goose biots for the “horns” or “wing case”
Same as everything as above except before the hackle and white biots, you add a set of rubberlegs on the sides. I like spanflex, but small to medium black or barred rubber legs are great too. You can get white legs and then color them with permanent marker too.
Simply use red goose biots and a read hot spot of thread at the top and you’ve got the variation complete.
I don’t care who you are or where you fish, trout will eat this fly. How’s that for a benefit? Much like a pheasant tail, or parachute adams, this fly is so popular because it works so well in so many places during so many times of the year. It’s versatile, allowing you to tie different colors and styles allowing for different uses, but the standard is hard to beat. Psycho princes are a close second but still don’t perform as well as the original in my opinion. This is a fly everyone should have in their box in sizes 12 – 18 at least if not 8 – 18.
As with all top producing flies, you can’t really go wrong fishing this in any way. A traditional 2 – 3 fly nymph set up under an indicator or in a euro rig makes this fly very effective. I’ve found particular luck during early spring and summer months.
A tip on sizes is to start in the spring with sizes 16 and each week or two, go down a size until you get to 12 or 10. Then every two weeks after, go back up a size until you get back to 16’s and 18’s. The key strategy to understand here is smaller flies in early spring and late fall, and progressively get bigger until mid summer, then slow it down. I’ve had best luck with sizes this way, but I’ll admit it is a generalization.
| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest, East, Midwest
Dragonfly Sizes: #8 - #14
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Region: Southeast
Dragonfly Sizes: #8 - #14
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: Northwest
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: East
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: Midwest
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest, Midwest
Green Drake Sizes: #8 - #14
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Region: East
Green Drake Sizes: #8 - #14
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest, East, Southeast, Midwest
Hexegenia Sizes: #6 - #12
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: East
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Southeast
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Midwest
Isonychia Sizes: #12 - #18
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, East
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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Region: Northwest
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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Region: Midwest
March Brown Sizes: #10 - #14
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest
Salmonfly Sizes: #6 - #14
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| Regional Hatch Chart | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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Region: West, Northwest
Skwala Stone Sizes: #12 - #16
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