Maybe my cocktail this evening was to strong.
Davie McPhail has a excellent Youtube video on tying The Black Spider.

Oliver Edwards has a Scandinavian accents? Jeez, its north county English. Maybe he should put up subtitles for those who already speak English.
B

I’m not sure if there is a totally clear available, I bought a lot of all available colors but the nearest thing to clear was white. It’s the Antron Tri-lobal which I obtained from bookmailet.com

B

I found it under 2 different names. MFC has it as Micro Lucent Chenille and UTC has it as Micro Herl Chenille. Both are a crystal chenille about 2mm diameter. I found the MFC stuff at Galloup's Slide Inn and the UTC at Arrick's in W. Yellowstone. You just dub a good amount of dubbing right onto the...

letumgo wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:23 am

Bumping an old post, which discusses the use of wool yarn for dubbing.

(Mike Valla's Tups Wool Dubbing Blend)

Ray, is Mike Vallas blend different than yours?
By the way I still have a little Tups orginal formula dubbing if anyone would like some. ( free of course )
Barry

Tim, if you need any hard to get materials gIve me a try. I’ve been helped by many members of the forum myself in the past and I am happy to pass it on if I can.
Barry

Great looking flies. Do you fish them with a Tenkara outfit?
Barry

chase creek wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:45 am

I think the Partridge & Orange and Stewart's Black Spider, although I don't keep records of such things. Both are older patterns that work very well.

+1 on these two patterns, I believe it’s not so much the pattern but how it’s fished.
Barry

A great looking ruffle pattern. Is there a recipe for it?
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I find the comments very interesting, I hope others do to. Hi-sticking is undoubtably a deadly method of fishing, in the right hands. It takes a great deal of skill to see the subtle takes but since it requires no casting, just lobbing the leader and flies I can’t see how it can be defined as fly fi...