Nothing Rhymes with Orange
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:45 pm
I'm starting to have dreams about Pycnopsyche these days, so I hacked out this standard issue flymph last night:
One thing that is a bit different about it is that I used a technique that Mitch Smith (of eponymous bobbin fame) shows in one of his videos. There, he ties a floss "dubbing loop" at the end of the hook, then captures a length of wire inside it; when he spins it and winds it on, it produces a fancy tag on the salmon fly he's tying. Here, I took a length of Marabou silk floss, separated it the way Ray talks about in his caddis larvae tutorial , and formed a loop with about a third of of the strands. I used some blue wire to get a bit variegation for an abdomen, but I can imagine any number of useful floss/wire color combinations. (FWIW, if you tie with an undivided section of floss, you can come up with a pretty good impression of a cased caddis.)
One thing that is a bit different about it is that I used a technique that Mitch Smith (of eponymous bobbin fame) shows in one of his videos. There, he ties a floss "dubbing loop" at the end of the hook, then captures a length of wire inside it; when he spins it and winds it on, it produces a fancy tag on the salmon fly he's tying. Here, I took a length of Marabou silk floss, separated it the way Ray talks about in his caddis larvae tutorial , and formed a loop with about a third of of the strands. I used some blue wire to get a bit variegation for an abdomen, but I can imagine any number of useful floss/wire color combinations. (FWIW, if you tie with an undivided section of floss, you can come up with a pretty good impression of a cased caddis.)
