DonO I would love to try this a little, send me your e-mail and we'll take this off line. I looked at your flexo flies online. Nice Stuff, Now I'm really excited.
Mike Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DonO Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] Flexo Flash Mike, I use lots of Flex-o and have a page on my website for Flex-o flies. Flex-o is the fly-market arm of a product called Tech-flex, which is cable-covering. It like a Chinese finger-trap- expands when you compress it end-to-end, or shrinks in diameter when you stretch it out. It comes in a myrial of styles and colors, but only a few are adaptable to flyfishing. I have a good relationship with the factory and buy it wholesale in hundred yard spools, but I only get the 3/8 and 1/2" silver, and most of my minnows are made with this for salt water, and my art flies (Ask Deb about Charlie the Tuna). I have a drawer full of other types, styles, and colors, and pieces of the 2.5" clear mono style that I make my giant bass creations out of. If you want a sample to play with, send me your mailing address and I'll send you a foot of it -3/8 or 1/2" to play with. You won't find it retail as far as I know. I've seen a few patterns on the internet, but not enough to make it a popular material. If there is enough interest, I could do an instruction article on the vfb home page for Flex-o, and Byard could get set up to sell the material. It just wouldn't justify it if only a couple of people were interested. What can be tied with Flex-o? Minnows from 1" long to 10" long, squids, crabs, & shrimp. So it's mostly a saltwater market item. I have a photo of a bunch of minnows that I don't have on my website. I could email it to you if you are interested. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:40 AM Subject: [VFB] Flexo Flash > > I recently came across a squid pattern which had a body made from a > light pink stiff netting kind of like a brides veil only much stiffer. > It appeared to be a tubular material like ez-flash but I'm not sure. > Has anybody run across a material like this? I saw a very similar > pattern on the flyfishingconnection.com (RM Short Fin Squid by Rich > Murphy) which used something called flexo flash for the body. It looks > similar (as far as the really lousy picture goes) Does anybody know > about this stuff and where I might get some? > > Mike M. > >
