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Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:32 pm
by hankaye
Ray, Howdy;
Thanks, since you a Dubbnstarted to talk and swap them back an forth. I'd been looking for them.
Is POP a name that you came up with or is this a style of fly I hadn't heard of 'cept here...?
They all be georgious!
hank
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:42 pm
by letumgo
Hank,
"POP" is my shorthand for "Partridge-Orange-Peacock". There are other colors in the series, but I generally refer to them as "POP flies". I designed this pattern.
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:33 pm
by hankaye
Ray, Howdy;
I've been reading my way up the threads, getting the idea but a bit disjointed...
Almost feel like a dog chaseing it's tail...
Huff-puff I'll get that rascally thing yet puff-huff, pant-pant.
hank
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:45 pm
by michaelgmcgraw
ARF !!
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:50 pm
by letumgo
Hank - follow this link to see how I split the strands apart (look at the sixth photo down)
http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... 76&start=0
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:01 pm
by JohnP
Thanks Ray. Your tying skill, photographic abilities and generosity are amazing.
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:50 am
by DNicolson
I really like the look of these flies, I've only got round to looking at this string, lost my reading glasses and I am toiling with a pair of head clamp binocular magnifiers I got from Orvis a while back. They help but I need the reading glasses, I have not tied a fly for over a week, today I get my new specs.
Is the baby bug wrap like stretch floss or one of the similar lycra flosses,
e.g. FlexiFloss? I have quite a lot of Lycra floss of various colours and makes.
I have been thinking for some time of simulating hackle stalk or stripped peacock herl bodies with it. The under-body using flat tinsel is very good, did you have an under-body of thread on the others?
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 5:35 am
by letumgo
Donald - yes, Lycra and Flexifloss are the same material as what I used. The material is tyed in at mid shank (no thread underbody).
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:55 pm
by DNicolson
Thanks a lot Ray, that is what I thought.
Got my replacement specs now. Have a back-log of ideas. 
Re: Variations on a theme (Assortment of POP Flies)
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:28 pm
by DNicolson
I started using Flexifloss on wet flies in 2005 or 2006,
I had previously used it on buzzer (chironomid) patterns
and never finished my experiments with it when my cataract
problems intervened.
I know that I have about a dozen colours stashed away somewhere.
Now I have to do a bit of detection.
This is my first use, as a rib, on a March Brown Spider from 2005.
Now for a re-start and hopefully some interesting flies. 