jamie shard Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 Food for thought: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael T Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 Those sure do look purdy! Is there some kind of "belly" material tyed in? It doesn't appear to be mylar tubing. They must ride hook point up. It's my guess the tyer had salt water in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rich mc Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 it looks like tubing to me. also think its a wide gap bass hook with the bend by the eyes. speaking of hooks umpqua is now selling dan blantons flies tied on the eagle claw 410 60 degree bend hook rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Flyrodder Miller Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Food for thought: It looks like Mylar tubing. I'd have to see the fly to tell how it was tied on. It could be tied front and back on the underszide of the hook or it could be lids over the hook and used to form the belly by the way you bind it down to the hook at the front and back ala Davey Wotton shad pattern. The tubing is typically coated with a head cement or something like Sally Hansen's Hard-As-Nails if you want to control bouyancy. If you put a little lead in the belly it will help it sink and if you leave it filled with air it will float or suspend depending on the weight of materials and hook. If you don't coat the tubing, the fly will sink slowly until the belly fills with water, but will spray water when you false cast it. It's a nice material to control how you want a pattern to float, sink, or suspend in the water column. FWIW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamie shard Posted September 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2006 I saved those images recently, but I have no idea where I found them. The hook is actually the kind used for plastics, a D-shaped shank and then the point points, as points do, back toward the eye. I remember them being called keel hook streamers, but it wasn't a classic keel hook, but rather a gammy hook or the like. Indeed the mylar belly material is only along the hook shank. -jamie s aha - I was multitasking and found where I got it: http://globalflyfisher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=589 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael T Posted September 24, 2006 Report Share Posted September 24, 2006 That's a good web site. It's one of the few that I can spend a lot of time in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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