Tom, Send me a photo. Tony --- Tom Davenport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have come up with a new way of tying wooly buggers > (for me) and I > call them "Halo" buggers (as in a halo of light). > I've borrowed the > halo term from Gary LaFontaine's flies because it > uses Gary's > favorite light reflecting material, Antron yarn. > > Tying them is very simple: > > Use the bead, weight that you normally use. > > Attach a marabou tail to match the body material, > as usual. > > Here comes the "innovation" (I know, there is > nothing new under the > fly tying sun). Take a three inch piece of sparkle > yarn and unwind > it into its three plys. Take two of the plys and > attach them to the > hook shank, tied down to the tail. Then take an > electronic tester > tool (it has a wire loop that pops out of the end > and grabs things, > in this case the end of the plys ) and grab the > ends. Take a tooth > brush with the the bristles cut short and rough the > plys up so they > are nice and fuzzy, but still intact. Put your > favorite wooly bugger > material (ice dub, mohair, rabbit fur or chopped > marabou, peacock > herl, etc) into the two plys, as if they were a > dubbing loop (if > using peacock herl, tie them in parallel with the > plys and grab them > with the tester tool as well). Twist until tight, > wrap and tie > off. Then take the toothbrush and brush the body > out toward the > tail. The result is a nice, full bodied wooly > bugger with an antron > halo surrounding the body. And it is a very fast > tie. > > Here are my favorite combinations so far: > > White Antron, white Ice Dub. > > Black Antron, black icedub. > > Olive Antron, Peacock herl with olive ice dub. > > Olive icedub with "spectrumized" mohair (you > spectrumize it by > blending a lot of different colors to get a new > color that is > different than any of the individuals. This is the > technique used in > Canadian mohair) > > The same with a little icedub added to the > spectrumized mohair. > > Goes good with a Chili Pepper on top! > > > At my last trip to Strawberry Reservoir I tied some > up in white using > white icedub, and caught three trout before anyone > else had any. I > ended up giving the rest I had away to the other's > fishing with me, > so they could get into fish. > > Now, go ahead and tell me who had already thought of > this technique > first, and while you are at it, let me know how you > REALLY spell the > plural form of "ply". > > > Tom Davenport > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
