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Dragonfly nymph

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Thanks, mates !

 

It's fully fishable, I don't make display flies!

 

The body is made by kitchen gloves' 5 mm strips, colored brown, using permanent markers.

The result is very authentic texture...

 

The legs are from Pheasant tail fibers.

 

Cheers

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Kody, every fly I've tried tying that uses kitchen glove, the flies comes out extremely bulky.. any tips? Do you need to really strech the latex with each turn?

 

Amazing looking fly btw

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Hi, mates !

 

The original color of the gloves is creamy.

 

 

Kody, every fly I've tried tying that uses kitchen glove, the flies comes out extremely bulky.. any tips? Do you need to really strech the latex with each turn?

 

Amazing looking fly btw

There are different gloves with different thickness of the material, so you have to choose the right one for the propper fly regarding to the size and shape.

One of the main reason for bulky fly is , that you don't pull strtip enought when you wrap.The another is that you don't match the size of the hook with the size of body to the thickness of the latex you use.The good thing when you use latex strip is that you could relatively change size of the fly according to strenght you apply when you strech with every wrap.

To create that sort of fles is very important to guess what would be the result after using latex strip regarding to the thickness of the material,and create smooth and appropriate underbody before start wrapping.

 

I hope it is useful, guys !

 

Cheers

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