Tony,
When is the 2008 Sowbug?
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Spezio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Griffiths gnats twist
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.
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