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

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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

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

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Peter Charles wrote in
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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

Peter Charles wrote in
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I tied a fly and it sank plus
the individual hairs sank whe dunked in the sink.

Contaminated??

Steve

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

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Stephen Welsh:

Contaminated??

Uh, not Suzie's sink.
Dave

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irate (Dave LaCourse) wrote in
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Uh, not Suzie's sink.


Not the sink, Dave, the foot.

:-)

Steve

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

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Stephen Welsh writes:

Not the sink, Dave, the foot.


Not that either. Not in Suzie's house. d;o)
Dave

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