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Blue Boy
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:03 pm
by chase creek
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.
Re: Blue Boy
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:30 pm
by letumgo
Oh man, that is awesome! Great fly and photo, Roger. Love it!
Re: Blue Boy
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:49 pm
by Mataura mayfly
Roger, great use of an under utilsed colour- I like it!
Re: Blue Boy
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:13 pm
by Kelly L.
Beautiful fly!! Love the whole thing, especially the color choices!
Re: Blue Boy
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:48 am
by willowhead
Ya gotta love it.
Re: Blue Boy
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:35 am
by DNicolson
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!!
Re: Blue Boy
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:26 pm
by Mataura mayfly
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!
