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-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För DonO Skickat: den 19 november 2007 04:18 Till: [email protected] Ämne: Re: [VFB] Griffiths gnats twist 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. >> >> > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______________ > Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. > Make Yahoo! your homepage. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.33/1133 - Release Date: > 11/15/2007 8:57 PM > >
