My fishing partner Mike, wraps the hook with red thread and then wraps Blood Red Micro tube over the thread.
You will get to meet Mike while you are here. I hope you can fish with him and see how effective this fly is.
Tony
Tom Davenport wrote:
I have been tying some soft hackles for the upcoming trip to the White river, and started playing around with materials. My thinking was soft hackles most often imitate caddis flies either emerging or diving, and in both cases air travels with the bug creating a lot of flash.
Tony says that a red bodied fly is the best color for the White river.
So I wrapped a fly's body with red copper wire, then cover wrapped the wire with clear pearl mylar (I actually used some Christmas tinsel in that color that I had laying around.)
Well, the result was quite striking! Holding the bug up to the light and looking at it sideways, it looked very realistic, segmented and three dimensional and it certainly had a lot of flash! Since you can now buy copper wire in many different colors I'm going to experiment using this style in some of the more traditional nymph patterns I fish.
Since it is difficult to "invent" anything new under the fly fishing sun, I suspect this simple technique has been used by others, but it was new to me.
Give it a try, you might like the result. The question, or course, is whether the FISH will like it.
