"Nondescript?" – Hell, that won’t score points at the clubhouse

I love collecting flies, fly patterns, and have a head full of esoterica that’ll make me the bane of your next cocktail gathering.

Earlier this week I had asked Singlebarbed lurkers what their favorite nymphs were – hoping to complete some flies owed to pals. “Curly Friede” made the mistake of mentioning some I had never heard of – he wasn’t alone, but an entire series of flies made it double alluring.

Curly followed up with the pattern descriptions for the “Nondescript” nymph series, and as I was headed out to the Little Stinking anyways, so I banged out four or five to see how they performed.

While a self confessed fly junkie, my weakness is simple buggy looking flies, fast to tie, simple pattern – allowing you to knock out twenty seven of them in the time it takes to craft two complex ties.

Some might call these “soft hackles” or “flymphs” – they looked good, so I put them in front of some fish to see how good.

Actually I put these in front of bushes and fish, as I left most of them on branches, logs, small children, and anything else within casting distance.

Must be the nine turns of 1-Amp fuse wire I used, the resultant gravity well warped the Space-Time Continuum, inducing a brush-hungry tilt to my casts.

I did manage to pick up a half dozen fish in quick succession, might’ve been more if I hadn’t squandered all them flies on foreign objects. Curly was probably giggling up a storm, knowing that the finished fly defies physics – it’s the perfect herbivore, and that’ll be the last time I follow his patterns to the letter.

I left one in a Smallmouth bass, nearly two pounds – the largest smallmouth the Little Stinking has produced to date, so I was thrilled. I was trying to “lip” the fish so he could pose for Curly, and he proved shy – taking my last Nondescript Black with him.

The name lacks retail sex, so we’ll have to polish Curly’s lexicon accordingly. I’m thinking the “Chlorophyl Alien” or “Brush Eating Di-Lithium Crystal” – something with some pizzazz..

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