Ostrich and Red Midge

[Fry Flier 0]

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by Fry Flier:

 

Ostrich and Red Midge

 

[FlyBoyJack 0]

Looks nice and simple...I like it!

[ARFLY 0]

That's cool, and very effective.

[troutguy 0]

I thought the body was beads. Very nice

[Steeldrifter 0]

Gary under your tying descrip it says "Clear Liquid Lace injected with baby oil"......what does that do? :dunno:

[Steeldrifter 0]

Neat looking midge BTW

[Fry Flier 0]

Steve the oil inside the lace causes the lace to reflect and refract the light in different ways, gives it a iridescent glow when light passes through. A good way to see what I mean would be the way you see on coming traffic in your car when it is raining during the night. Clean windshield and the oncoming traffic

Is easy to see, dirty greasy windshield and you are straining through the rainbow glare.

 

You know when you look at a bug or a shelled creature and it looks one colour but then you move it and you see another.

[Steeldrifter 0]

Very interesting Gary, I never have heard of anyone doing that before but it sounds pretty slick. So your basiclly stabbing the lace with a syringe then and injecting the oil into it? before you actually wrap the body?

[Fry Flier 0]

Steve this is done like you say with a needle and syringe. For the midge size you would need a 29 gauge needle and for the medium you would use a 27 gauge needle. Fill your syringe with a fine oil like baby, mineral or sewing machine oil then inject it into the lace from one end until you have a steady stream of oil coming out the other. This takes very little oil, I have filled up 5 lengths of lace at 44"s this weekend and I am still working on the same 1/2 cc needle I filled on Friday.

[Steeldrifter 0]

Very cool Gary thanks. I'll have to give this a try for sure

[Alex C. 0]

Nice fly :headbang: I saw that article in Fly Tyer that talked about using the syringe but haven't had a chance to try it out yet. The look it gives a fly is pretty sweet. I can't wait till someone gets a little creative with it and starts using different types of liquids to inject the lace with.

[Fry Flier 0]

Hope the visual helps clear up the the statements above, like they say 1 pic= a thousand words.

These are all the same tie done at the same time but hit buy light on different body layouts from the camera.

 

 

 

Gary

[siestafred 0]

Good lookin' Gary ! :headbang:

Remember that you can also get a neat reflective look by wrapping some flash or mylar on the shank under the lace. Have to try the oil though, those two in combo would kick butt !

 

:yahoo:

[Fry Flier 0]

Good lookin' Gary ! :headbang:

Remember that you can also get a neat reflective look by wrapping some flash or mylar on the shank under the lace. Have to try the oil though, those two in combo would kick butt !

 

:yahoo:

 

Thanks Fred, you are a good part of why I am using this stuff. You and Robert were(are) very helpful with the information when I was just starting to work on this medium.

 

[fly time 0]

I use the same method on larva lace, I learned it from J Stockard