A BIG 'thank you'..

Neil Thomas...detective par excellence, who tracked down not only the tying for the elusive Anorexic Nymph, but also the whole article as well and emailed it all to me.

Many thanks indeed Neil...I owe you one.

Don't keep us all in suspense Richard - whats the dressing?

There's hardly anything of it...half a dozen turns of tying thread[choice of colour]...three or four turns of copper wire, two peacock herls twisted together, tied in and a couple of turns to form the thorax, whip finish and that's it.

I tied a few in yellow, red, green, brown and pink thread, and caught on all of them, although if I remember rightly the green and brown ones were the most effective.

It can't really get any more basic unless you count Oliver Kite's Copper Wire nymph.

[there will be a pic of the beast in my gallery soon]