To add to my previous post, the pattern I'm familiar with (Drunken Dragon)
is a dead on beautiful Gomphus imitation. The "red eyes" are red clear
small beads fused onto a 30lb yellow mono material, which is added to the
fly in the final stages. I forget what the material is called, Al Peterson
who is on this list, maybe you can help out here. The effect of yellow
gives the fly a yellow pupil (sp?).
Paul Neel
Woodinville
At 06:29 PM 5/15/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I do not know the specific pattern, but, a number of dragon fly patterns
>incorporate eyes; many think this is a "trigger" to the success of the
>pattern. Many also know that flourescent red is the most visible color in
>dark water. The key is the word "flourescent". If you had small
>"flourescent beads" that were connected you could easily incorporate them in
>a standard dragon fly pattern. Probably, a fat bodied, brown, black or dark
>olive bodied Carey fly including flourescent red eyes would be effective.
>Jere
>
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>> While fishing opening weekend, a gentleman was describing his hot pattern
>> called a Red Eyed Dragon Fly. I was doing well compared to most but this
>guy
>> was killing them with this pattern. He was across the lake so I didn't
>get a
>> chance to see what it looked like. Anybody familiar with it?
>>
>> Mike Wilson
>> Spangle
>>
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