Aunt Lydia's is very flashy..I use it lots in dubbing ( chopped fine as previously mentioned) and also as the wings on almost all of my dry flies that I tie for my own use. I unwind the strand of 3 and use that strand for size 14, 16 flies. One half of that strand is the right amount for 18, 20s and 22s. Tie it in with figure of eight across the shank, then lift it up and give it a wrap and it becomes the wings on Adams, Royal Wullfs, etc. You can actually run a bit of black permanent pen across it and it looks even more like the hackle tip wings of Adams. I use it a lot for the wing post of my parachute flies. It handles and ties down a bit better than Phentex yarn does, and has a better flash. Hope this helps. BTW..it is not actually Antron yarn, though it does have good flash. Antron is true trilobal yarn and is a proprietary item. Hope this helps. Joyce
PS: I couldn't be without Aunt Lydia's. It is also the body on many of my steelhead flies..check out the Gaudy Lady in the swap from several years ago on Jan Furuly's home page. That's pure orange Aunt Lydia's.
