frogge wrote:
Hey Foam man,
I've tied a few of the foam patterns. I've had success with the foam
beelte. I prefer to tie a dubbed body for my ant patterns. Foam can be
used to make the post on some parachute emergers. I don't know about
France, but a cheap source of foam here is Walmart where it is sold in
sheets for kids projects. I've also seen and article that used a
leather punch to cut pieces of foam from cheap flip-flops. Good luck,
Frogge.


Hello frogge.

And thanks to all of you.
Yes, I have also beetles and ants(winged)
These fish well at summer time.

I have tied e serie of winged ant on caddis hook #18 and #20 for
altitude lakes, and they fish.
Caddis hook is interesting because it make a bended body like a
dead/sunk ant. (I stole this pattern from a notorious tier somewhere on
the web)

But my full foam hopper made no success.
A good friend of mine says the foam colors are too flashy.
I should only retain yellow foam for the abdomen.

You are right cheap source for the foam, is creation stores (like
scrapbooking), also an excellent source for many other stuff for tying.