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From: Wayne Blake-Hedges
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Flies of the Week- juicebugs again
Hi All;
Is the material used for bodies on juicebugs one of these products?
http://cgi.ebay.com/RIB-JELLY-ROPE-cord-stretch-stretchy-elastic-caddis-fly-/320423265255?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4a9ab703e7
This above looks like the material I have, but there's not a good view
of the cord itself. And mine is not rose colored. It has to be the clear one
to get the clear transparent color.
It's also located here:
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/LETERAS__W0QQ_fsubZ690002015 scroll down, a bunch of
colors available, but no clear.
I remember when the fly shop got it in a long time ago. It was a
craft-store item, and came in clear, clear with multi-color glitter, and clear
with gold glitter. I still have portions of all of them. The owner got them
in skeins and put them on cards 4' at a time. Didn't sell enough, so dropped
the line.
Whoever has the rights now (if that is the case- maker on websites) did
up the colors shown, then I guess 'cratered', since the stuff is on ebay (my
guess). They sell it as 'ribbing-rope' to segment caddis flies. I always
thought it was too big to segment small flies, as was swannundaze, to rib
anything except large stoneflies. Larva-Lace reduced the size of D-rib and
sold a lot of it in clear and colored versions.
The clear jelly-rope (speghetti rope when we first saw it) may be
available in craft stores somewhere. It is the best in my opinion because it
is very soft and 2# or 4# mono, which I rope with anyway, makes well-defined
segments, and becomes gin-clear, with the ribs disappearing and the undercolors
showing through. It's fairly tough, but I doubt a fly will survive agressive
fish teeth. But save the hook and bead, razor off the hook and tie a new one
on in less than a minute.
I have a box of old Swannundaze with a bunch of Larva-lace. I'll try
my old styles of juice-bugs using these materials to show you the difference
betwen that and a fly tied with a jelly-rope top-case only, or a top/bottom
only case, instead of ribbed.
If anyone can find clear Jelly-rope and there's enough interest, we
should do a material-swap and then a fly swap. DonO
Wayne
--- On Sat, 7/17/10, Allan Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Allan Fish <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [VFB] Flies of the Week- juicebugs again
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 9:32 PM
Okay, Don. I'll bite.
Where do you get the spaghetti rope?
a.
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Allan Fish
Greenwood, IN
[email protected]
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