parachute worth question......

"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
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Tom Littleton wrote:
Tom
p.s. I remember reading of your first version. Geez, are
we getting old!g


Sux doesn't it. With any luck I'll have a fly tying
sequence online by the end of the weekend. But I do
have a leaky toilet to fix and the Baetis are hatching
on the Lower Madison RFN, so there's a lot to do this weekend.

Everything I said about that fly is true: damn good looking,
very easy to tie...you almost can't screw it up, floats
well too.

But there is a catch. You have to go online and buy some
ultra-thin 30 guage TEFLON tubing from an electronics supply house
first.
The TEFLON is used temporarily, during construction, and then removed.
http://www.action-electronics.com/teflontube.htm
......hmmmm. I see they don't sell anything thinner than 26 guage.
That would probably work just fine. I'll have to try to find
a better 30 guage source.


Without the tubing this idea doesn't work at all. With it the bugs fly
off my vise faster than ever before. Placing the hackles on the
bottom side of the fly really does make the fly float better,
as well as look better. It's a big enough improvement you might
even be willing to spend more time making the fly just to get it.

To get those improvements in less time, rather than more,
is pretty slick.

The use of superglue and teflon seems pretty interesting. Off the top of my
head, I can imagine lashing a teflon tube lengthwise along the bottom of a
hook by wrapping 'ribs' widely spaced with some stout thread, supergluing
along the top and letting it dry, then cutting a line down the 'belly' of
the fly and removing the teflon tube. It would leave a series of legs in
place very nicely. You could use a large gauge tube to make larger legs...

--riverman

The coolest super glue trick I've seen recently was what Dan Delekta
showed me a week or two ago.
He dubs his flies all the way out to the eye of the hook.
He never makes a whip finish. Instead, at the the last dubbing wrap,
he pauses momentarily and puts a drop of CA glue (he uses Krazy glue)
right onto the dubbing, on the thread. Then he makes that one last wrap,
waits 5 seconds and then snips off the thread. It's faster and easier
and it looks better, because there is no ugly thread head......it's
dubbing all the way.


Some more super glue tricks:

http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/...rangFlies.html

http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/...ue_step_3.html

"riverman" wrote

the fly and removing the teflon tube. It would leave a series of legs in
place very nicely. You could use a large gauge tube to make larger legs...



Just tie in a series of empty loops like you would make dubbing loops and
anchor each in place When the fly is otherwise finished snip the loops in
half and viola legs ( coat with flexament for best durability )

http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/..._in_focus.html

.......this photo shows an upright (and slightly out of focus) BWO with
the thorax
raised up above the surface tension, with the abdomen kissing
the water's surface. So the posture depends on the species, and also,
I think, on the moment: every time you look they show you something
different.