have the directions a list member sent me awhile ago.
You could tie Puglisi fiber the way Don does his awesome hair and create
workable flies. And the initial bundles are tied in like the Don O demonstration.
Puglisi fiber is polypropylene rope unravelled, Ron Winn of Indian River and others
(Tony Spezio's epoxy minnow, the old "Aztec" flies) were using this "fiber" long before Puglisi.
Look for it in Macrame supplies or at garage sales.
A couple of differences.
Puglisi flies encorporate sparkle into the fiber, and between bundles. Puglisi has done a wonderful
job with the colors of his product and creating baitfish patterns to imitate saltwater forage fish.
Puglisi ties very sparsely will alternate top and bottom and ties. And final bundles sometimes go all around the hook
shank like a haystack then pulled back.
Puglisi also mixes colors and uses thinning shears to thin the material.
Puglisi fies get messed up after a fish strike. Most avid Puglisi users carry a dog brush to smooth out
the fibers after a hook up. Ron Winn added silicone to the noses of his flies and this helps keep the flies in shape.
Awesome hair is more of a reflective material; the P. fiber is more translucent, takes marking pens easier.
Just some thoughts no bad or good intent intended.....................................as I said I didn't see the initial post, so maybe I'm way off here.
At 09:54 AM 9/23/2004 -0500, you wrote:
mea culpa, Ginger.
(Loosely translated it means I stuck my foot in my mouth again, didn't I?)
Would you mind tellling the differences in techniques between the use of Awesome Hair and the use of Puglisi fibers?
Thanks,
Allan
Ginger Allen said:
I guess I missed the first part of this post, so I am confused....Puglisi fiber
is different than Awesome Hair and some of the tying techniques are too.
At 06:55 AM 9/23/2004 -0500, you wrote:Otherwise known as "Tying with Awesome Hair": Llink is on the Virtual Flybox front page.
Takes you to: <http://www.virtualflybox.com/articles/article.php?id=7> --
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