Prince Nymph
fishing lure design
The Prince Nymph is a nymph attractor wet fly used in fly fishing. It was created by Doug Prince of Oakland, California, in the 1930s. It was originally known as the "Brown Forked Tail" and tied without a bead head and used black ostrich herl instead of peacock herl in the body. This fly is weighted. It is productive and popular fly and numerous variations have been created.
Origin
The predecessor of the Prince Nymph was called the Brown Forked Tail, which was created by two brothers Don and Dick Olson of Bemidji, Minnesota, in the 1930s. This fly used a black goose-biot tail and white goose-biot wings. The wings were tied curved up from the body rather than down as in the Prince Nymph. This fly did not have a bead head and black ostrich herl was used in the body rather than peacock herl. Doug Prince of Oakland, California, adapted this fly to create the Prince Nymph, sometime in the 1940s.
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