wire and silk brushes

Post by **letumgo** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 2:42 pm

Thank you Ruard. Ingenious setup. I am glad I asked.

Post by **hankaye** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:53 pm

Ruard, Howdy;

Very well thought out. Explains why all the
bubbles are on the bottom of the fly abdomens ...

hank

Post by **Ruard** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:53 am

hankaye wrote:Ruard, Howdy;

Very well thought out. Explains why all the
bubbles are on the bottom of the fly abdomens ...

hank

I wondered already if anyone on this forum had noticed

greeting

Post by **Roadkill** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:08 pm

Ruard,

Nice set of flies!

The only wire dubbing brushes I have made for some nymphs are about 3 feet long and twisted with a cup hook in my portable variable speed drill.

Post by **Ruard** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:20 pm

Roadkill wrote:Ruard,

Nice set of flies!

The only wire dubbing brushes I have made for some nymphs are about 3 feet long and twisted with a cup hook in my portable variable speed drill.

Is 3 feet is a slip of the key-board??? If not how you can put the dubbing between such long wire's??

greeting

Post by **Mataura mayfly** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:13 pm

Roadkill wrote:Ruard,

Nice set of flies!

The only wire dubbing brushes I have made for some nymphs are about 3 feet long and twisted with a cup hook in my portable variable speed drill.

Next experiment dubbed furled leaders?

Post by **hankaye** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:40 pm

Roadkill, Howdy;

Are you wrapping the whole critter at once or do you
prefer to use several smaller critters ?????
Had to ask .....

hank

Post by **Roadkill** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:55 pm

Ruard,
3' is not a typo

, I just use a sticky dubbing wax on one side of the wire and touchdub the entire length then fold the other wire next to it,clamp the tag ends down together and turn on my drill.

MM,
My furled leaders are all made the old fasioned way by hand and gravity. Might make a fuzzy one for ice fishing.

hankeye,
I have more than a lifetime supply of critter dubbing to work with. I usually blend in some dyed rabbit that I collected out of my wife's pet rabbit cage with a dustbuster when I cleaned his cage for over ten years.

Post by **William Anderson** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:27 pm

This whole thing is really great. Thanks so much. The photo set up is a great start for something I would like to work on myself. But those flies....hats off to you.

w

Post by **Ruard** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:14 pm

Thanks everybody for the nice words, really appreciate them.

greeting

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