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  • Pheasant Tail Nymph reference photo
  • Pheasant Tail Nymph reference photo
  • Pheasant Tail Nymph reference photo

Shop / Two Hearted River box

Pheasant Tail Nymph

A
Nymph

$2.75 each

Old Au Sable Fly Shop names a #12 to #14 Pheasant Tail as the Hendrickson nymph, and it covers every Michigan Ephemerella and Baetis nymph before and during a hatch. A beadhead #10 is a standard trailer fly in U.P. steelhead rigs, and #12 to #20 versions take pink salmon in clear water. Fish it dead-drifted under an indicator or on a tight line in the weeks before each mayfly hatch.

6 × $2.75 = $16.50

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Setups

Indicator nymphing · Euro / tight-line nymphing

Imitates

When to fish it on the Two Hearted River
Part of the Two Hearted River box. Months the fly finder calls for this pattern here, for brook trout, rainbow trout (resident).
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Pattern notes
Full hatch, egg, and forage links with sources.