No weight in the Glo-Bug?? Larry J
>>> "Don Ordes" <[email protected]> 11/4/2010 6:10 PM >>> Actually, you didn't do bad at all. Just trim the egg round and get better with practice. I watched some You-tube videos on tying it, and it looks like they're McFlyfoam yarn and Glo-bug yarn. One one McFlyfoam video, he's using more steps than I learned. A young fellow by the name of Victor was tying McFlyfoam glo-bugs at the ISE show in San Mateo in 1996. He worked for a local flyshop and Greg Conway had just introduced McFlyfoam to the market. I watched Victor kick out glo-bug flies by the minute. I grabbed a bag of pink and white McFlyfoam and tied a show mouse and gave it to him. My kids named it 'Pepto Bismouse'. What is different from the video and what works for me (the way Victor taught me) is to tie the entire fly in one bunch, even if you stack the yolk colors. The thread must be strong enough to completely compress the yarn to the hook. Lay your materials parallel to the shank just on top of it. Just a couple of wraps in one mid-spot, then work your way underneath the yarn to the front and tie off. Do not figure-8 the materials. Then grab all the materials and pull/stretch them as tight as you can straight up to form a 'V'. Hang on to the hook as you pull, then release the hook to cut, unless you have a 3rd arm or can do it with your teeth. Now use a very sharp scissors and make one quick cut between your fingers and the hook. How much materials you used and how big of a diameter egg you make will become evident. The McFlyfoam yarn will mushroom down just over halfway if you used enough. Use you fintertips to work the material down to finish a perfectly round ball with an egg yolk in the middle. You may need to touch it up with a scissors, but you should not have to round it out. This is the only You-tube that I saw that was close to correct. It was all correct except the wrap that he put around the material when he was tying off. That hinders the material from rolling down and forming the ball. Other than that, you can see how round the ball comes out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40NniJUeHK8&feature=related The technique I expanded it to for the mouse and other flies is the over-and-under tie in order to do mice, crabs, sculpin-heads, frogs, etc. See the Patterns of the Masters in 1995 and 1996 for the patterns I tied at the time. I also did a beaver, a tiger mouse, and Aussie mouse, the yellow duck, and a platypus that Jack Dennis had to leave in Tasmania. Egg patterrns less than 1/4" need to be tied over/under because the material cannot roll around the hook and touch. With th over/under I can tie eggs to 1/8" diameter. I have a box with 30 bags of McFlyfoam yarn, and i love it. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce M Westphal" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:25 PM Subject: [VFB] attention Don Ordes > Here's an example of my difficulty tying the Eggi Jaun Kenobi fly. > Just can't get the eggs right. Any help will be appreciated. Joyce > > > IMG_0271.JPG > > These pictures were sent with Picasa, from Google. > Try it out here: http://picasa.google.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
