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Yeah I like the wallaby as well. Looks similar to a course squirrel dub. It has some very nice contrast and mottling to it in texture and color.

Old Hat wrote:Yeah I like the wallaby as well. Looks similar to a course squirrel dub. It has some very nice contrast and mottling to it in texture and color.

Carl, the wallaby has guardhairs similar to squirrel or hare, maybe a little finer, but much longer. The underfur is really fine as well like muskrat, but longer. It worked great cutting the top half of the fur away from the hide, leaving the lower portion. The blend with the longer fibers would definetly have it's uses as well. It's cool stuff.

Here is my contribution to the Wallaby flymphs courtesy of MM as well.

A Wallaby and hen:

Hook-Mustad 3906B #10
Thread- Orange monocord
Tail- Golden Pheasant body feater fibers
Body-Wallaby in a dubbing loop
Rib-Orange Kinkame silk #50
Hackle-Mallard hen back feather

Outstanding!

Dub-ya, Howdy;

You've been crankin' out some truly beautiful flys lately.
I've been very remiss in posting my notice of them...

You do tye some of the best lookin' fish attracters that I see..

Some that get posted on here are more of the eye-candy varity.
Nothing wrong with them... Beautiful to look at and marvel at the
dexterity and fastididiousness (sp?), required to put them togather
especially under the 'sproots & sprouts let it all hang out' eye of a
Macro or Super-Macro lens.

Thanks for keeping it 'real' ...

hank

Roadkill, Howdy;

Looks like you steped into Mr Peabody's Wayback Machine...
Nice Vintage look...

hank

Roadkill, heck of a fly. Great to see some of these materials going to good use. . I just hope they end up taking fish for you all as well.
The rib (although not that clear in the photo) probably compliments the tips of the Mallard hackle quite well in colour. Nice looking tie all around.

Rk, this is a fantastic use of the wallaby. The size of this works very well with the scale of the material and you've certainly paired it well with that hackle. Gorgeous combination.

Hank, I'm glad you find em fishy.

Since everyone was using Wallaby, I thought I'd give it a go. Nothing elegant but nice and buggy

Hook-Temco #14
Thread- Black
Tail- Wallaby
Rib-Fine copper
Body-Wallaby in a dubbing loop
Thorax-Wallaby
Hackle-Red hen feather

Gig, I thought I commented on this but it's not here. I like the quality of the wallaby here. It goes to show the various textures you can get with the material. This is a good looking fly. I need to tie some using the guard hair as tails too. Do you use wallaby flies often?