FLYMPH FORUM

Any of yall spun flymph bodies with Snowshoe here's foot? Its got an incredible translucency...seems like a good candidate.

I don't know of any flymphs but there are lots of emerger patterns.

It's like seal and other course fur and hair. You can do it but it looks fairly ragged. In order to get the right profile you have to dub quite a bit of the hair on a strand. I have used it for a White Miller emerging flymph on a well waxed primrose thread so that the thread is a light green, like you would for a Greenwell's. A light partridge hackle and small bit of clear Zelon or Antron for a short shuck.

I save the fine underfur from the foot when I tie emergers.
I'll take a small pinch and lightly hand blend it with the dubbing I'm using to tie a flymph.
When the fly is wet and in the drift, the translucent fur gives the impression of life and bubbles.
I really like it when used in a split thread or Clark Block.

Rick that's exactly what I was thinking. Just using some of the fine leftover under fur from between the toes to simulate bubbles

My two favorite materials: grouse and hare. Fortunately for me, I have these these creatures in abundance up here. The hare is wonderful stuff, if a little unmanageable at times; the wild stuff is like that. Like Rick, I tie most of my hare up on a block. I've never really given the underfur much thought as to whether or not it resembles bubbles, I just like the way it fishes. I mix a lot of the marginal fur into other materials, and it works very well; sometimes I even remember what I did the time before.

...but not often. I should have started keeping notes years ago.