It can be a messy process to fill larva-lace with oil, and soon as a fish tooth punctures the lace, it empties out. An easier way is to get some extremely fine wire and make a long threader like one you'd use for bobbins. Push this through the larva-lace center, the pull back through your chouce of materials such as flashabou, holographic tinsels, krystal flash, fine copper wire, whatever. Clear larva-lace over flashy underwrappings make for very flashy flies, even if you weave the lace instead of wrapping. Add those materials to the lace center and its even more interesting. My personal best fishing flies with clear larva-lace bodies use a square-knot weave over a tinsel-wrapped tapered underbody. Use same weave as the water-witch fly. In fact, I tie my water-witch bodies this way, too, over flash underbodies. DonO
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Klemick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 8:00 AM Subject: [VFB] Oil filled LarvaLace; [was Swannundaze] > > Hi Janet, > > Your mention of filling hollow lace with oil is intriguing. Could you please > describe your method (every approach I imagined seemed messy), and also > describe the effects you get from doing this? > > > Thanks very much, > > > Mark > > > --- Bob & Janet Schimpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I didn't spot any patterns using plastic ribbing. Don't know what caused > > the decline. Maybe we should do a > > > ribbing-swap for those who still posses the stuff. > > > > I still get lots of orders for flies using plastic ribbing type materials, > > mostly chironomids and stone nymphs. I've still got a big bag of > > swannundaze, plus all the replacements---v-rib, larva lace, and another > > called "Nymph Glass". In comparison, the original swannundaze was much > > stiffer and not as stretchy as the later stuff. It may be "old fashioned", > > but some pretty cool effects can be achieved by filling the lighter colors > > of larva lace with olive oil! > > > > Janet > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ >
