Blue Boy

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Blue Boy

Post by chase creek » Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:03 pm

Hook - Diachii 1640 #12
Thread - Black
Body - Sulky "Silver Metallic Blue" from fabric store; two layers; last layer waxed and touch dubbed
with dark Hare's mask
Thorax - Wapsi Super Bright Fl Blue
Hackle - Starling

Going to try coating last layer of body with THIN layer of super glue or SH instead of wax - should toughen the body up a bit.
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Re: Blue Boy

Post by letumgo » Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:30 pm

Oh man, that is awesome! Great fly and photo, Roger. Love it!
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Re: Blue Boy

Post by Mataura mayfly » Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:49 pm

Roger, great use of an under utilsed colour- I like it!
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Re: Blue Boy

Post by Kelly L. » Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:13 pm

Beautiful fly!! Love the whole thing, especially the color choices!
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Re: Blue Boy

Post by willowhead » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:48 am

Ya gotta love it. ;)
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Re: Blue Boy

Post by DNicolson » Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:35 am

I do like this fly. I have a liking for blue flies, probably because it is Scotland's football strip.
By-the-way, you'l notice I called it football, not 'soccer', yuk!!
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Re: Blue Boy

Post by Mataura mayfly » Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:26 pm

DNicolson wrote:I do like this fly. I have a liking for blue flies, probably because it is Scotland's football strip.
By-the-way, you'l notice I called it football, not 'soccer', yuk!!
I think we were the penultimate country to drop the "soccer" tag from the beautiful game, we used to refer to rugby (90% played with the ball in hand!) as football............. sometimes it is just hard educating colonials! :lol:
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