Mark: Thanks... Great tips, Chuck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Delaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] Foam Cutters
Chuck, You can find people who make the cutters but in my experience for foam spiders it is not necessary. You can just cut a strip of foam and use that. The width of the strip should be the width you want the abdomen. the length shoul be about 2 1/2 to 3 times the length of the spider body you want. You'll end up asting alittle foam, but not much. Attach your thread to the hook. Tie your foam on top of the hook with the thread, binding it down tightly to the hook shank leaving the excess foam sticking off the bend end of the hook. Wrap the thread around the foam tightly all the way to the bend of the hook. Advance the thread to the midpoint of the hook, and add your rubber hackle legs. I always use a two hackle width of rubber hackle and separate the legs after I've finished the fly. Fold the foam over toward the eye of the hook and tie it once through the legs, then advance the thread toward the eye of the hook, and wrap the foam again making the second division, then tie down at the head. Trim any excess foam and tie a neat head, an Voila!! a floating foam spider!! I no longer buy spider bodies to make spiders, but I do buy them for patterns such as clouser floating minnows... Mark Delaney On 7/15/05, Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I've had my best success with "bream killer" > "spiders"... But the ones I had been buying had molded foam with three parts > to the foam, a tiny head, a medium thorax, and a larger abdomen.. Now, I > tried cutting the 2mm foam I bought, and CANNOT get the "curves" I want.. Is > there a place to buy, Spider "cookie cutters"???? Thanks. Chuck > -- "So much water, so little time!" http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html
