About These Flies

The Prince Nymph is a superb standard nymph. Usually fished as the upper or lower dropper on a team of three traditional flies however, you can also use it  as a single fly when you need to .

Trout Nymph Fly - Prince Nymph

Easily ranked one of the top 10 fly fishing nymphs of all time along with the Hare's Ear, the Copper John, and the Pheasant Tail. Very well-defined profile is unmistakable and fish take it with abandon. Generally used in fast water as a stonefly imitation, these nymphs are an attractor that can draw strikes anywhere and can be used in warm-water as well. Color, Purple.

Nymph flies like the Prince are a range of flies that imitate larva, pupa and drowned adults

The trout finds most of its food beneath the surface of the water, sometimes by grubbing around the weed-beds, at other times by rising in water to take nymphs and pupae on their way to the surface

The nymph flies  fall into various categories: larval and pupal forms of various aquatic insects; drowned adults or even swamped stillborn flies; and drowned terrestrials such as beetles. Many do not represent anything in nature, but are classed as attractor flies or lures, designed to tempt the fish to take out of curiosity.

There are two main areas of wet-fly fishing. Firstly, there are the wild rain-fed rivers and streams where it is difficult to see a fish rise let alone see a minute dry fly on the surface. On such waters, wet nymph flies are used almost exclusively upstream and down, as necessity or terrain dictates. The second main area of wet-fly nymph fishing is on still waters like lakes, lochs and reservoirs, where the angler uses a team of nymphs just below the surface.