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http://www.troutflies.com/tutorials/...is/index.shtml

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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:12:34 GMT, wrote:

http://www.troutflies.com/tutorials/...is/index.shtml

And worth waiting for :-)
Nice tie, Harry.

/daytripper

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Fabulous job, as always, Harry! One design question for you: most of the
caddis I encounter have more substantial
bodies, do you think the biot body tied with the prominent ribbing gives the
illusion of greater bulk than appears when dry?
Tom

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typed:
http://www.troutflies.com/tutorials/...is/index.shtml

I haven't done any tying lately, but that makes me want to tie a few.
Great job, Harry.
--
TL,
Tim
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:12:27 GMT, "Tom Littleton"
wrote:


Fabulous job, as always, Harry! One design question for you: most of the
caddis I encounter have more substantial
bodies, do you think the biot body tied with the prominent ribbing gives the
illusion of greater bulk than appears when dry?
Tom


Tom I think the ribbed biot in combination with the "fluffy" thorax
help make the overall appearance larger...You could make the entire
body/thorax from a loop of shoe fur and just trim it to what you
like.

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On Aug 25, 12:12 pm, wrote:
http://www.troutflies.com/tutorials/...is/index.shtml

Nice work Harry.
I like the way you do the backgrounds (with a background highlight
centered behind the subject). I'm going to try figure out how
to do that myself.

I've been looking at a burgeoning collection of how-to-do-it
fly tying videos on YouTube. I'm going to have to work
that into my act too.

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"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
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Fabulous job, as always, Harry! One design question for you: most of the
caddis I encounter have more substantial
bodies, do you think the biot body tied with the prominent ribbing gives
the illusion of greater bulk than appears when dry?
Tom


Try a turkey ( not goose) biot over a darker underbody ... makes a very
nice, fatter, multicolored segmented and natural looking body since the
turkey is a bit translucent on one side. Turkey biot is also much longer
and easier to wrap.