Grouse and Bracken Twist 1120

[William Anderson]

Grouse and Bracken Twist 1120

Hook: Daiichi 1120 scud hook
Thread: Griffiths 14/0 Brown
Hackle: Grouse
Body: Bracken Yarn (used one of the two strands that make the yarn) compliments of Chris Stewart - TenkaraBum....man this stuff is really buggy, twisted with 3 barbs of ringneck pheasant herl.
Thorax: Fox Squirrel




This is from the same family as Utah Killer Bug Yarn and Nymph Yarn that have made the rounds recently.



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[Mataura mayfly]

That is one heck of a yarn, .......for our purposes. It is hard to find a yarn designed for knitting that hold that "buggy" quality, this one has it for sure.
Nice tie!

[letumgo]

Great stuff ain't it! I've been having a lot of fun with these yarns. Grouse is an especially nice choice with the bracken yarn. The rich mottled brown look nice against the earthy green body. Increadibly fishable fly.

[tie2fish]

I swear, william -- you're a regular classic-producing machine.

[Otter]

I swear, william -- you're a regular classic-producing machine.

Bill, you should have more sense, encouraging such lazy tying , yarn... way too easy to work with for men of such undoubted skills. They should be sentenced to three months of dubbing with adult seas fur..... off course we all know whats coming next, weaving and crochet... knitting needles are in the post William

nice fly by the way.

As a matter of interest ( strictly for a friend of couse ) what yarn raw materials have properties that are reckoned to be have benefits over more traditional dubbing materials or is it the versatility and ease of use of the yarn that is attractive to tiers.

[William Anderson]

Thanks everyone. I've enjoyed being able to tie quite a bit more recently.

As a matter of interest ( strictly for a friend of couse ) what yarn raw materials have properties that are reckoned to be have benefits over more traditional dubbing materials or is it the versatility and ease of use of the yarn that is attractive to tiers.

I don't know. For your friend, I would suggest simply marveling at the nuances of translucency and complimentary color shifts and be happy with a body that seems buggy and satisfies so many requirements. Difficulty factors aside. I just like having another method for imitating bugs. Wools and bits of nylon make for nice combinations. I don't actually know what is in this blend, but it all looks like stuff I would love to stick in the coffee grinder. I also like that the result is something between a herl body and a dubbed body.

I'd love to hear from others regarding yarns and Chris in particular about the yarns that he offers.

This is the Veniard's Chadwick 477 sub twisted with pheasant tail barbs (same as above) and a dark partridge hackle and gray squirrel thorax. I would probably like this a little more if the yarn was divided. I like these herls twisted with the yarn.



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[tie2fish]

I'm having grand time chopping up and blending the wool yarns that Ray passed out in Roscoe. As Norman suggests, they are easy to work with and combine nicely with other materials to create great dubbings for all types of application techniques -- twist-on, noodles, drop-loops, and spun brushes for example.

[gig]

Man....I got to go out and check up some yarn fellas, know what I mean, Seriously though, I really do as those flies are great

[CM_Stewart]

What I like best about the yarn bodies, particularly when the yarn is a blend of a few colors, is that I don't feel the need to cut, mix and blend. I just wrap the yarn to make the body. There are enough stray fibers to give the body a translucent appearance when wet - which is enhanced after the fish chew on it for a while (and they will).

I've found a few yarns that seem to work well, and just learned of a few others from one of the organizers of last week's tenkara summit/conclave/convention held in Salt Lake City. He somehow persuaded the ladies that run one of the local yarn shops to cut off a few inches of various yarns, let him tie flies in the shop and dunk them in a glass of water. He tried 30 different yarns over a couple days and after actually fishing with the ones the seemed promising in the shop settled on just a few (which I will soon have in stock).

[Kelly L.]

Incredible flies, and I love that yarn!!!