Book - Mayflies "Top to Bottom"

Got this book this weekend in the sale bin at Bass Pro. Its by Shane
Stalcup. Wonderful. His photography is stunning and the key concepts of
the book are highlighted by the photography.
What he tries to do is a "Tyer's Benchside Reference," using his techniques.
In addition, there are specific patterns. You learn a specific technique
and come out with a fly.
One major critique is that he has some wonderful pics of mayflies in the
book but does not identify them. Just a pic with no title.
Question for anyone. I've noticed he uses a lot of "Medallion Sheeting" for
wings. Is this a commercial name for plastic raffia?

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Frank Reid
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"Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote in

Is this a commercial name for plastic raffia?

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Cabela's has "Stalcup's Medallion Sheeting" and their description starts
"Mottled raffia makes ...." so I think you're on the right track G

I got the book last year but the CDC parachute is the only pattern in it
that I've actually fished. I have little faith in manmade winging
materials that come in sheets ( as opposed to fibers like yarn or organza
taken apart ) but I'll most likely buy some "medallion" and try it .... very
often a "new tie" of a certain style ( emerger, for instance ) will work on
hard fished waters even though the "standard tie" is as, or even more,
accurate .... I've seen fish chatting about, "TroutHunter fly shop must be
making a lot of money, I've seen, and ignored, 14 of their patterns, just
this morning" ... only to stop the chat to chomp on very similar pattern
with a "new material" and then exclaim while running into the weedbeds, "
damn fly shops, why can't they just leave well enough alone?"

Is this a commercial name for plastic raffia?

Cabela's has "Stalcup's Medallion Sheeting" and their description starts
"Mottled raffia makes ...." so I think you're on the right track G

G

Thanks. Oh, about those flies, thats why I tie some of the most butt ugly
flies in the world. Confuses the hell out of the fish and they accidentally
bite whilst laughing. Works every time.
I make my own "mottled" raffia. I open it up, fold it over in thirds and
glue it together with head cement (Sally Hanson's Hard as Nails). I
sprinkle a little hairs mask dubbing on the cement before I fold it. Works
great.
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Frank Reid
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Frank,
I've talked with Shane several times about the "Medallion Sheeting" and
actually it's a product distributed by "Hareline Dubbin, Inc.".... I've
tied up just about every fly in that book and have fished just about all of
them on the San Juan River, here in the upper Northwest corner of New
Mexico... They work great... Have caught a lot of fish using them... What
I don't like about the "Medallion Sheeting" is that after a while of the fly
being in the water, the sheeting tends to lose it's coloration, but most of
the time the fly is so beat-up by the fish I have to change out the fly
anyway...

Rodney...
aka "smokeater734"
Paramedic/Firefighter
Los Lunas, New Mexico


"Frank Reid" moc.deepselbac@diersicnarf wrote in message
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Got this book this weekend in the sale bin at Bass Pro. Its by Shane
Stalcup. Wonderful. His photography is stunning and the key concepts of
the book are highlighted by the photography.
What he tries to do is a "Tyer's Benchside Reference," using his
techniques.
In addition, there are specific patterns. You learn a specific technique
and come out with a fly.
One major critique is that he has some wonderful pics of mayflies in the
book but does not identify them. Just a pic with no title.
Question for anyone. I've noticed he uses a lot of "Medallion Sheeting"
for
wings. Is this a commercial name for plastic raffia?

--
Frank Reid
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Frank,
Please bring a sample of your mottled raffia to the Western Clave. Sounds
very interesting how you make your own.
Thanks,
Guy

I make my own "mottled" raffia. I open it up, fold it over in thirds and
glue it together with head cement (Sally Hanson's Hard as Nails). I
sprinkle a little hairs mask dubbing on the cement before I fold it.
Works
great.
--
Frank Reid

Please bring a sample of your mottled raffia to the Western Clave. Sounds
very interesting how you make your own.
Thanks,
Guy

Will send myself a reminder. Its pretty easy.
Frank