Desert Fox Patterns
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 12:20 am
Played around with some desert fox dubbing the last couple days. I really like the colors available from the piece I had. There was a grizzled red, brown, and light/dark grizzly. Has a fine dun underfur and the hair is soft out to the tips of the guard hairs. Anyway a few patterns to look at.
Spider pattern
Thread body with copper wire ribbing. Red dubbing of the desert fox for the thorax and a badger variant hen hackle.
Caddis patterns
I used the red grizzly color for the abdomen and the dark grizzly color for the thorax then palmered a badger variant hackle through the thorax for this one. Tipped it off with some copper wire.
I mixed the red and dark grizzly colored dubbing for the thorax area on this one. Golden badger hackle.
Flymph pattern
This one used a red CDL tail and CDL hackle. For the hackle I distributed individual fibers around the shaft just behind the eye then pulled them back and finished the head. Used the red/brown dub for the body and copper wire rib.
Spider pattern
Thread body with copper wire ribbing. Red dubbing of the desert fox for the thorax and a badger variant hen hackle.
Caddis patterns
I used the red grizzly color for the abdomen and the dark grizzly color for the thorax then palmered a badger variant hackle through the thorax for this one. Tipped it off with some copper wire.
I mixed the red and dark grizzly colored dubbing for the thorax area on this one. Golden badger hackle.
Flymph pattern
This one used a red CDL tail and CDL hackle. For the hackle I distributed individual fibers around the shaft just behind the eye then pulled them back and finished the head. Used the red/brown dub for the body and copper wire rib.
