Fly Tying the Destroyer Nymph

From Jim Quick’s 1960 “Fishing the Nymph” the Destroyer Nymph would be considered a general searching nymph pattern today.

This book is sometimes available on Amazon at: amzn.to/2MevN2n

Other sources are Ebay or any of the large used book sellers.

Hook: #10-16 nymph
Thread: Black
Tail: Javalina or wild boar (or substiture)
Rib: Gold wire
Body: Orange yarn
Wingcase: Peacock herl
Hackle: Grizzly dyed yellow

*** Some of the other popular books used here: ***
Dave Hughes, “Essential Trout Flies,” 2017, amzn.to/3lbCZYX
David Klausmeyer’s “Favorite Flies,” 2020, amzn.to/3oeSNMa
Fly Pattern Encyclopedia: amzn.to/34U0rUe
Mike Valla’s “Tying the Founding Flies,” 2015, amzn.to/354oSir
Randal Scott Stetzer’s “Flies, the Best One Thousand,” 1992, amzn.to/34Q15mp

Savage Flies is a project with the mission of encouraging and teaching fly tying to as many people as possible. The channel is named after one of my western Maryland homewaters, the Savage River. I’ve been uploading at least three new videos a week (usually Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday).

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know in the comments if you have any tying tips you would like to share or if you have any patterns you would like to see tied here.