I agree with you Peggy, I use the 3/0 red thread for my gills and it seems to be the best. I've just started to use some of these in our salt water creeks here and they are working better than expected.
Walter -----Original Message----- From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peggy Brenner Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 8:22 PM To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [VFB] Thunder Creek Flies - Question? After I've folded the bucktail back I use red thread 3/0 or a single strand floss to tie it down and make the gill appearance. The trout don't seem to notice the little extra on the top and bottom, actually I think it provokes a response from the fish and you catch more. Kinda makes them mad type of thing. Also, these can be made and fish well with good quality craft fur, the H2O brand 'just add water' is fairly long. This is one of my flies for my intro class. Up were I am they catch as many fish as a good bugger pattern Peggy On 1/2/2012 7:50 PM, Bob Hendry wrote: > > Thank you Mart. I will keep your tips (below) close at hand. The > bucktail I ordered from Hoook & Hackle hasn't arrived yet. I will > start practicing when it gets here. The video clip is well done. What > did you use to color the gills? It looks to be far simpler that using > a brush and bottle of enamel. I'm thinking of using finger nail > polish. And I sure hope I can keep the different colors separate . . . > > Cheers, > Bob Hendry > > [] > " . . . my heart just longs to be in > Philadelphia, USA . . . <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-VOn1BOD0>" > *- - Art Lund, /Philadelphia USA - > /lyrics*<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-VOn1BOD0> > > > At 18:35 1/2/2012, you wrote: >> Bob, >> I think the post it method to separate the diff colors of hair is a >> solution to a problem that does not exist if you do it right :-) >> - Clean the bucktail very well and get rid of the short hair >> - Tie the bucktail on top of the hook - don' t let the hair drop off >> from the other side due to thread pressure, increase tension by >> pulling thread up, not down >> - when the top color is tied in, rotate the vise 180 degrees and tie >> the other color on top of the underside of the hook >> - rotate the vise, advance thread to where the 'neck' should be >> - with your right hand, pull both bunches of hair to the right >> - just in front of the eye of the hook you see a gap between both >> colors of hair >> - take a needle and separate the upper from the lower color >> - fold top color back, pull really tight and tie down >> - repeat from bottom color >> Done >> >> I tied one before the camera here: -- Peggy Brenner http://pbandj.us/SixSistersFlybox/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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
