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Eureka! was Floating Materials
A short while ago, I was ready to go postal, now I'm grinning like the
Cheshire Cat. Talk about bi-polar fly tying . . . I've been getting increasingly ****ed off with my inability to produce a worthwhile, meniscus floating, golden, translucent, butt hanging down, humbacked, legs tucked, ginger coloured, tan bodied, Hydropsyche caddis emerger. After mucking about with snowshoe hare, various synthetics, etc. I found that none floated well. I tied up a bunch and they all sank. They all had an opaque appearance that wouldn't do a decent job of mimicking a drifting, translucent pupa. In a moment of desparation, I tried some natural red squirrel tail in the sink and low 'n' behold -- the damn **** floated. The colour is about right so on the hook it goes. I stack the hair, tie it on a #18 200 R with 14/0 primrose, leaving about 5/8" to 3/4" sticking beyond the hook as a "tail". The body section of the squirrel hair is well covered with thread to form the tan body. When the light yellow thread gets wet, it darkens down to a tan. This tail then gets folded forward and tied off. This humps the squirrel tail over the thread body in a reaslitic profile and colour arrangement (dark over light). The tips of the hairs are at this point, sticking forward -- these are then swept under and tied off to simulate the tucked under legs. Then tie a loop of ginger CDC on top and . . . TADA!! My best ever meniscus floating, golden, translucent, butt hanging down, humbacked, legs tucked, ginger coloured, tan bodied, Hydropsyche caddis emerger. http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...disemerger.jpg Ya, I know the eye is a little crowded but the fish won't give a damn. Peter turn mailhot into hotmail to reply Visit The Streamer Page at http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...ers/index.html |
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Peter Charles wrote: A short while ago, I was ready to go postal, now I'm grinning like the Cheshire Cat. TADA!! My best ever meniscus floating, golden, translucent, butt hanging down, humbacked, legs tucked, ginger coloured, tan bodied, Hydropsyche caddis emerger. http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...disemerger.jpg Looks like it will catch some fish. But I'm puzzled why the squirrel floats better for you than snowshoe foot hair. Tom's got a snowshoe caddis emerger pattern that floats great. You can even pull it under and it will pop to the surface. Willi |
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:54:44 -0700, Willi wrote:
Peter Charles wrote: A short while ago, I was ready to go postal, now I'm grinning like the Cheshire Cat. TADA!! My best ever meniscus floating, golden, translucent, butt hanging down, humbacked, legs tucked, ginger coloured, tan bodied, Hydropsyche caddis emerger. http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...disemerger.jpg Looks like it will catch some fish. But I'm puzzled why the squirrel floats better for you than snowshoe foot hair. Tom's got a snowshoe caddis emerger pattern that floats great. You can even pull it under and it will pop to the surface. Willi Mine didn't but then I may not have been sold snowshoe hare feet (they were *supposed* to be snowshoe hare). I tied a fly and it sank plus the individual hairs sank whe dunked in the sink. Also, I'm not using it conventionally as wing, rather I'm folding it. Peter turn mailhot into hotmail to reply Visit The Streamer Page at http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...ers/index.html |
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Peter Charles wrote in
: http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...disemerger.jpg Ya, I know the eye is a little crowded but the fish won't give a damn. That should do nicely ... interesting loop of CDC ... I've not seen it done that way (horigazontally) before. Steve |
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Peter Charles wrote in
: I tied a fly and it sank plus the individual hairs sank whe dunked in the sink. Contaminated?? Steve |
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Peter Charles writes:
http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...disemerger.jpg Hey, you're right handed. Ain't that a left handed Renzetti Traveler? Nice emerger too! Dave http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html |
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Stephen Welsh:
Contaminated?? Uh, not Suzie's sink. Dave http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html |
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On 1 Feb 2004 23:32:22 GMT, Stephen Welsh
wrote: That should do nicely ... interesting loop of CDC ... I've not seen it done that way (horigazontally) before. Steve It should sit in the surface film a bit better with the horizontal loop. I've been working on a fly that'll have this appearance . . . http://www.sfotf.com/CADDIS.JPG This one's dead, laying on the aquarium floor but picture it hanging just under the surface with that golden skin puffed with air. http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...disemerger.jpg Peter Peter turn mailhot into hotmail to reply Visit The Streamer Page at http://www.mountaincable.net/~pcharl...ers/index.html |
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Stephen Welsh writes:
Not the sink, Dave, the foot. Not that either. Not in Suzie's house. d;o) Dave http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html |
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