Just use tying thread on those small flies and for yellow bodies and other
that change into another color just use a strip white hackle quill and dye
it with a water proof marker before applying to the hook....Sometimes the
hook color comes through a very thin dub body A dyed strip peacock eye
quill.is interesting also..By using the same size hackle, tail and body
size try using a down eye ,#1510 Daiichi. or down eye Mustard ,5x short in
#16 for # 20 to #22 flies and sometimes for # 24's and # 18 for the smaller
ones. Again it depends on the size of hackle and body size etc you apply to
the hook . They been doing this for midge flies in England for over seventy
five years , I have an old Hardy catalog that shows this.,and Bill Tobin of
Cortland been using # 16 ,5x shorts since the !930's.,called Tobin's Little
People ...I found that in catch and release waters where there are very
selective that I had to use a regular size hook only 10 % of the time. and
instead of missing so many fish ,once they take and roll to take a fly using
these hooks ,just tighten the line and they just hook themselves......Glenn
Overton
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From: "Neville Gosling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 10:29 PM
Subject: RE: [VFB] Diptera
You don't need seal's fur per se - it does say or substitute.
Most black dubbing should be ok. Seal's fur is a bit spikey.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
Greater Vancouver, Canada
Subject: Re: [VFB] Diptera
I have everything to tie these but the seals fur. Anything I could sub for
that??? Thanks, Chuck
