Thanks Don. I can see that this would be an excellent alternative. I will try it.
Larry J >>> "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/15/2007 5:40 PM >>> 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.
