I'd like to see the photo as well. Tom are you using these on the Weber? How do they do?
Mike
On 6/18/06, Anthony Spezio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
>
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