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Antron

Floss, Antron and Squirell Hair
Hello All,In a lot of the basic fly tying instructions I have the authors mention materials though they dont explain exactly what they are so I am having a hard time figuring it our....one is that the
Air sacks
I am not sure if you are talking about air sacks that would go at the back end of the abdomen or not, but there were beads marketed as scintilla beads which had that effect, I'm not sure if they m
Czech nymph swap
Don...Mine will be tied with a center spot of orange dubbing. Remaining body dubbing will be either a peacock blend or oilve frost antron(I have to see how this mixture looks) Shellback will be Magic
Scuds
Hi Alex C,First for this parachute:At first step I tie three black hair from jackal tail.The body is a coils of light tan thread colour with orange marker and ribing with black thread.After that I dep
Glow Materials
I am looking for glow materials for bodies, particularly looking for something like glow dubbing, antron, egg foam, or similar. I am aware of the Uni glo material, but want other than the nuclear gre
stuff for bluegill flies
If you like waxies, there is a fly that I picked up either here or TFF, but I can't remember where I saw it or who tied it.The gist of it is cream antron tied in at the tail as a dubbing loop. Ap
Orange Dragonfly
Thanks for the kind remarks, I was hoping you might like it. For the abdomen I used fine stiff brass wire for the core, tyed on three pieces of 20 lb mono, wrapped the shape with white antron yarn, p
Trophy Lakes Golf and Casting Club, Port Orchard, Wa.
Wow, that set of photos is the complete package. There’s just something magical about pics of kids having fun fishing, and your photos really captured this so well. My parents live in the Seattle are
Dog Hair Dubbing
QUOTE(chrisfish @ Jul 16 2006, 12:26 PM) [snapback]165856[/snapback]I don't know of any other place I could post this and not be called insane.But I work as a vet and I have tried all kin
Stonefly Nymph II
Oh, I forgot to add that I used Brown Antron for the gills. I put about 7 hours into this fly, 3 more than my first attempt at a stone nymph, and it came out way better than the first. The proportio
Do you make your own dubbing?
Back to the library.Polly's book describes in detail his method of blending furs. In short form - Place materials to be blended in a basin of water and merely agitate the materials with your fing
chenile worm fly????????
Good Day, Are you thinking of something like this?[attachmentid=4513]Very simple to make:This actually is a very simple fly to tie/spin. I cut apprximately 12" of trilobal antron chenille (hare
So you want a Senko fly do you?
Good Day, So you want a senko fly huh? [attachmentid=4495] Now was that so difficult? This actually is a very simple fly to tie/spin. I cut apprximately 12" of trilobal antron chenill
Bluegill Swap
I got mine also but Im sad to say that the envelope tore and the extra set for ridderbos must have fallen out ......... Na john I got em in my fly box er I mean on my desk for ya!!!!
Hopper OR Dragonfly Swap
Just can't find a hopper pattern I'm really happy with, so I'm doing a dragon fly. Here's a pic. Tied to match some that should be showing up in herds here pretty soon.[attachmentid=
*opens door* *ahem* StoneflyKid is makin an Entrance!
Hello everyone,Yup my names StoneflyKid and I'll letcha guess why. I've been into flyfishing since I was about 11 years old. The priest of our church at the time was a fisher himself. He was m
Tying scuds
They'll catch fish.....whether they think it is a scud or not is a diferent story. I don't know if they grow that big?Scud patterns are cool because you can be as simple or as complicated as
Widows Web
Hello All,Widow's web used to be carried by Fly Tyers Dungeon until they sold the manufacturing rights to Montana Fly Company in 2001. It is similiar to antron yarn, in that it is a shiny, crinkl
Brushed Antron Dragon
A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by FrenchCreek: Brushed Antron Dragon (click link for more info)
Dragonfly Nymphs
Here are a few dragonfly nymphs The Mudeye The Fly-Tying bible Peter Gathercole. Hook size 6-8 3x, underbody thick lead wire along the sides of shank (just to thorax). Body dyed olive rabbit fur dubbe
Mylar piping/tubing
If you can find the right kind of mylar piping, you can get a three for one deal.1. Mylar piping (great for fly bodies)2. Z-lon/Antron core (look for this material, not the one with the string/twine f
What do you think of Z-lon? Sili Skin? Loco Foam?
If you carried the right kind of mylar piping, we could get a three for one deal.1. Mylar piping2. Z-lon/Antron core3. Tinsel
Ext body Parachute variation
if you are having problems with your hackle wraps and dont mind synthetics try using a piece of antron yarn. Tie it down flat on top of your dubbed body with three wraps, pull the tips up and put thr
Wet Fly Fishing Question
QUOTEI've noted that Don often ties size 6 wet flies and I'm wondering if this size is for demo or do you (any of you) also fish with that size?Al, the ones I've been tying and fishing are
How much variation is needed----
Personally, I dont own many pattern books and I tie based on what action I want out of a fly and what I want to imitate so I dont know if the flies that I tie have been done before or not. So when I &
Tying any new smallmouth flies?
I've been tying some bass flys for my neighbor who walks my dog during the week. I wanted to give him a nice variety so I was searchin the web for ideas and concocted a few hybrids. His warmwate
Dubbing Twister
Here's the results: towards the head is actually antron yarn wrapped, no bugginess, but the rest was done the way I described above.[attachmentid=3392][attachmentid=3393]
What do you use?
I use white antron. For a little more round-looking wing, double the material and put the crease from being on the card at the wing tip, and tie in where the middle of the card would be.
Woven Foam Bee
BassYes, the fly is woven around the shank, and the butt ends of the foam strips. Tie them in to the back, over the herl tail. I found it helps to make one wrap of the black, and then tie it down a
Synthetic Tying Materials
I see your point deeky, but like luvinbluegills I find that I can get the same action from materials like marabou, antron, etc. To each their own.
New materials question
Good Day, 1 - I have a Wasatch dubbing brush and love it. A lot less time involved vs. picking with a bobbin.[attachmentid=3182]2 - I find minor differences between the two products. However, the a
Zelon or Z-Lon
Good Day, Zelon is good stuff. In fact, if I am not mistaken, Blue Ribbon Flies and John Betts bought the worlds supply of Zelon from DuPont. Psst, you can buy straight Zelon, and if you want, can
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