Don, If you make the Sowbug, I would like to see you do this. I have missed out on the demos you did when you were here, This time I will have a lot more free time to visit. Tony --- DonO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Larry, > Try this to make your gnat bulletproof. Along with > the peacock, hackle, and > tinsel, tie in the end of some heavy monofilament > thread mounted on a > bobbin. Danville is great. > > Tie the fly the same until you get to the rope part. > Rope the materials > around the mono thread without twisting the thread > (by putting tension on > the bobbin as you twist the materials). Wrap the > rope forward and tie off > with your tying thread. > > This makes the same rope that you had, but now it > has a mono core that will > resist teeth. Another advantage here is that you > can slide the rope down > the thread towards the hook and make fat dense > bodies without extra > materials. > > I don't know if you can rope on an untwisted mono > core with the Norvise. > (I'd like to know if you can. > If so, it would work for wire-core and bite-tippet > ropes too.) If you > can't, just rope it by hand- will take about 5 > seconds. > > This version would also take less than a minute to > tie, but would have the > durability advantage over plain peacock. I tie them > using the mono only, > leaving out the tying thread and the half-hitch. > > DonO > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:01 PM > Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: SIG & Hats ???? > > > The fly is soooo easy > > to tie. standard dry fly hook from #12 - 16. I > tie in two peacock > > herls, narrow tinsel and one brown hackle all > together at the top of the > > bend. Half-hitch, then twist all the materials > into a rope. On my > > Norvise this takes about 1.75 seconds. Then wrap > the rope forward from > > the bend along the hook shank to the eye, tie off > and whip finish. Buck > > watched me do this at the Sowbug two years ago. > We were calling it the > > "one minute midge". > > Sorry this story took so much space. It's all > true. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
