Don: So you wrap the thread, hackle and chenille, then wrap the copper wire over all that???? I went to the VFB homepage many times, but the video is small, and I am half blind, so it's hard for me to see exactly how it's done..I'm sure if I saw it in person I'd go "duhhhhhhh"...Cause i saw the Lefty video and so the way he did it was easy to pick up for rMe..Now, on the 13 Bead head nymphs I just finished, I used a long fibered synthetic dubbing, and i made a "rope" out of the dubbing, tied that in, spun it around the thread , then spun that onto the hook shank. Is that rope dubbing?? It seems to hold great..Thanks, Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: DonO To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] NASCAR Fly Swap- WB's Chuck, See my rope-dubbed wooly-bugger on the home page of the VFB, under articles. My version uses a copper wire core for the body material and the hackle, but the wire is not twisted with the material. THis makes for a very tight body and it's also indestructable and weighted at the same time. It's also extremely fast. I also use the same method for near-indestructable saltwater flies, using bite-tippet instead of wire. I wish I could have made SB this year to do the rope-dub clinic. I'm also glad that project is finished. Now I can relax a little. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck Alexander To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:14 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] NASCAR Fly Swap These are indestructible.. Specially if you twist a copper wire in WITH the chenille, thread and hackle feather.. Wrap that all in and it will catch 100 fish, Chuck ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Lehman To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] NASCAR Fly Swap Lefty Kreh calls it the "Indestructable Wooly Bugger". Instead of wrapping your chenille and then your hackle, you tie both in at the back of the hook, and twist them together into a rope. Maybe even with a dubbing loop or the long tag end of your tying thread added for extra strength. If you're using different colored chenille and hackle you could blend the colors. Jack Austin jim phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You got it! Although a sixe 24 circle hook might be pleaseing. Now I know how to layer the tri-colors but is there a way you can get them to inter-mingle? I saw something somewhere that looked like two colors were twisted while being tied. Any idea. jim On 4/16/07, DonO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A 3/4 ton is usually adequate. Tie a 2500 series OTB Humvee WB on a circle hook. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: jim phillips To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] NASCAR Fly Swap What size would Buggs recommend? On 4/15/07, DonO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So Jim, do a brn, tan, & olive WB on a CIRCLE hook... Buggs ----- Original Message ----- From: jim phillips Chuck I know nothing about NASCAR except it has fast cars running in a circle BUT I will do some research and tie something ( Woolly Bugger). Now if you were talking HUMVEES, Jeeps, duece and a halfs , APCs, all military color(olive, tan and brown), then it would be a tri-color WB. Any cars and drivers like this? JIm -------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/761 - Release Date: 4/14/2007 9:36 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/762 - Release Date: 4/15/2007 4:22 PM
