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Hi-Vis Foam Sheaf

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Anyone know of a source for the old Hi-Vis foam that could be used in patterns such as sinking beetles?  It was kind of a krinkly foam/plastic that you could tie in at the tail and then pull over the top of hair bodies to give it a shell back type of look. Can't seem to find it anywhere, and all of the searches for Hi-Vis only turn up the brightly colored stuff for parachute patterns.

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1 hour ago, VicK said:

Anyone know of a source for the old Hi-Vis foam that could be used in patterns such as sinking beetles?  It was kind of a krinkly foam/plastic that you could tie in at the tail and then pull over the top of hair bodies to give it a shell back type of look. Can't seem to find it anywhere, and all of the searches for Hi-Vis only turn up the brightly colored stuff for parachute patterns.

Wouldn't foam tend to float the fly?

For a sunken beetle pattern, I use black artificial leather (naugahyde) that can be bought at a fabric store.

The sinking pattern is on the left tied with black naugahyde and the one on the right is a floating beetle tied using foam.

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I think the material you are looking for is called "Loco Foam" which is foam mated to a film coating. It does catch fly fishers at a fly shop. However, it catches the fly fishers in a fly shop!

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So the beetles look like this. However, with floating flies like the ones below, the coating really is not seen by the fish since it is on top of a floating fly.

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9 minutes ago, SilverCreek said:

 

... naugahyde ...

 

 

Now that's a blast from the past

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6 hours ago, SilverCreek said:

think the material you are looking for is called "Loco Foam" which is foam mated to a film coating. It does catch fly fishers at a fly shop. However, it catches the fly fishers in a fly shop!

You can make your own Loco Foam.  All you need is sticky back craft foam sheet and Art Deco Foil or Transfer foil, that's applied to a sticky surface.

 

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I think flytire got it right, evazote is what your looking for

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Thanks for all the responses. Plenty of options to check into, am sure at least one of them will work.

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