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Hey guys, Thanks for the tips, I guess it doesn't really matter if the fringes get a bit soggy so long as the body still floats somewhat convincingly, eh? I'll try a few Mays and Damsels with foam before I head out on Saturday.

Thanks for the feedback! The tails on the first two are just regular sewing thread.

Hi there, I'm just starting out in fly fishing, being a poor recent graduate and a tinkerer I started tying with just what I had around, this includes bits of thread, hair from an old brush, blended yarn for dubbing, found feathers, that sort of thing. Here are a few of my recent flies, I'm taking them out this coming weekend to try them out on a medium river here in southern Ontario, and I still need to find a way to make the damsel fly float reliably, I think I may have some scotch guard squirrelled away somewhere, but right now I'm just churning out a bunch every day to mimic what I see people putting up on the web. I'm totally new to this, so any tips appreciated!