Description
Purple Semperfli Straggle String for Purple Haze Dries, Prince Nymphs
Nobody can quite explain purple, but every Montana guide carries it. From below, it reads as a dark, natural silhouette against the sky. Up close, the UV flecks give it a glow that natural colors don’t have. That combination makes it a strong attractor on dries and nymphs alike. Straggle String’s slim core keeps purple bodies sleek, and its fibers add the buggy texture that plain floss lacks.
Recipe 1: Straggle Purple Haze
- Hook: Partridge dry fly hook, size 12 to 18
- Thread: Semperfli Nano Silk, purple or black
- Tail: Mixed brown and grizzly hackle fibers
- Post: White calf body hair or white poly yarn – Nature’s Spirit Predator Dub
- Body: Purple Straggle String, trimmed short on the abdomen and left full at the thorax
- Hackle: Brown and grizzly, mixed, parachute style
Tying: Tie in the post at the one-third point and the tail at the bend. Wrap the Straggle String forward to the post, trim the abdomen fibers short, and take 2 extra turns around the post base for the thorax. Wind both hackles parachute-style together, tie off, and whip finish.
How to fish it: The Purple Haze is a Parachute Adams with a purple body, and it out-fishes the original on a lot of days. Use it as a searching dry when nothing specific is hatching, or as a general mayfly during PMD and Drake hatches. It floats high and stays visible, so it’s a great indicator dry with a small nymph dropped 18 inches below.
Recipe 2: Purple Jig Prince
- Hook: Partridge Ideal Barbless jig hook, size 12 to 16
- Bead: Slotted gold or silver tungsten, 3 to 3.5 mm
- Thread: Semperfli Nano Silk, black
- Tail: Brown goose biots, split
- Rib: Fine gold wire
- Body: Purple Straggle String
- Wings: White goose biots, tied flat over the back
- Collar: Brown hen hackle, 1 to 2 turns
Tying: Mount the bead and tie in split brown biot tails. Tie in the wire and the Straggle String, wind the body forward, and rib it. Tie in the white biot wings in a V over the back, take 1 to 2 turns of brown hen behind the bead, and whip finish.
How to fish it: The Prince is one of the best attractor nymphs ever tied, and the purple body adds glow in deep or stained water. Fish it on a Euro rig or under an indicator through riffles and deep runs. It’s a strong lead fly in a two-nymph rig with something small and natural behind it. In fall, steelhead and lake-run browns eat it too.
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