I might have come up with something now. To begin with, it wasn't Dan Bailey's like I first said. I confused it thanks to that I at the same time was looking through bags of Dan Bailey's long flash chenille, to that other ugly fly I was going to replicate. The rubber leg bag says 'Wag's Fly Tying Materials'... and on the back the address to 'The Fly Den' (Lewistown, ID). The back of the label shows a range of four sizes (large, medium, small, fine), of which I have the small one. This 'Fine' is a size I'm curious about. I can't find Wag's or The Fly Den anywhere. But another one who has a size 'Fine' is Hareline... and at J Stockard it's described as "about 1/2" mm. Sounds "about" right (even though I know that little means much here). So it might be worth a shot. If it's what I want, then good. If it's the same "about 1/2 mm" as my 'Small' one... well, at least I'll have a spare. LOL /Nick
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För Webb, Gary Skickat: den 17 juli 2012 21:22 Till: '[email protected]' Ämne: RE: [VFB] Help with fly / rubber legs... Usually the smaller diameter bungee cords have the finer strands. I have seen some though that were just one solid strand. Luck of the draw as to which you get. Gary L Webb From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Di Somma Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] Help with fly / rubber legs... Nick; If you have an old bungee cord, you may have the rubber legs you are looking for. Thank you, Alan Di Somma Sent from my iPad On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Rick Zieger <[email protected]> wrote: Could you show the original fly against a few sizes of rubber? I have some very fine rubber legs that might work for you. Rick --- On Tue, 7/17/12, Niclas (Gmail) <[email protected]> wrote: From: Niclas (Gmail) <[email protected]> Subject: [VFB] Help with fly / rubber legs... To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 9:32 AM Last week I tried out a new fly that I (just because it was so ugly) bought earlier this summer in a fly shop up north. As ugly as it was, it turned out to be quite effective. When everything else I tried (including the Chili Pepper) struck out, this one seemed to work. But a couple of days ago, when Teresa and the girls were with me, I lost one in a tree almost immediately after losing the first fish. I didn't want to risk losing the second (last) one before I had copied it, so I chose something else that had a little of the same features - very visible, very slowly sinking... and ugliness: a white bugger with a bunch of round rubber legs for tail. MAN was that a good choice!!! It turned out to be a fish magnet. Before they had even left I had lost another fish... and at the end of the day I had caught three, lost another two, and missed three or four takes (and naturally lost the two white flies). Considering that I was only there for three hours (and that also other club members say that it seems slow there now)... it was something out of the ordinary. If it wasn't the lake that suddenly had a very good day, this will probably be my new goto fly. (Sorry Tony... the Chili Pepper is out. LOL) I'm quite sure I got these rubber tailed buggers from someone at the VFB, two black and two white (unfortunately now lost), either as bonus flies in a swap or along with one of the "kick off" boxes which were sent to me when I first got stuck in here. They have been sitting untouched in my flybox for quite a while so I can't remember which. Last night I was going to tie up more of the white ones but even though I thought that the thinnest rubber legs I had were very thin... these ones were even thinner. I took a picture for comparison: The left fly is the original black version. The right fly is my (as it turned out: fat tailed) test replica... with Dan Bailey's rubber legs size Small. Anyone who recognizes this fly and can tell me what kind of rubber legs they are? Pictures 'fly.jpg' and 'tails.jpg' attached. Direct links in case they don't get through: http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc307/runarsson/fly.jpg http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc307/runarsson/tails.jpg /Nick -- 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 <http://www.linesend.com/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. 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