Something different.....
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 4:55 pm
Every now and then I will get.... not sick of.... but to a stage where I have had enough of the usual and some funny things come off the vice. Most go in the "never to see the light of day bin" the odd one might make it to a fly box and even get used.
These are invented patterns (to me anyhow, I know most things have been done before and you cannot re-invent the wheel), often tied on oversized hooks with either materials that are laying around the bench annoying me, or materials that do not come from "regular" materials outlets. Like organza ribbon from around a bunch of flowers or something.
This guy, well there was a large strip of natural rabbit in a bag of mixed hackle feathers I was sorting through trying to find a Greenwells hen feather..... and a #2 hook that had been kicking around the bench for a few months, not sure who made it..... or where it came from!
Thread was some old "Sylco" sewing cotton D 258 Golden Cinnamon of Australian manufacture.
Thread down the shank, catch the end of the rabbit strip and wrap the leather/fur strip forward just as you would with a floss or dubbing loop..... just BIGGER. Finish the front with a couple of hackles, henny-cock purple and blue Guinea in this case.
You end up with this........
In my way of thinking it should make a fair imitation of our "Bully" baitfish, for something that is big..... or very hungry!
Wet.
These are invented patterns (to me anyhow, I know most things have been done before and you cannot re-invent the wheel), often tied on oversized hooks with either materials that are laying around the bench annoying me, or materials that do not come from "regular" materials outlets. Like organza ribbon from around a bunch of flowers or something.
This guy, well there was a large strip of natural rabbit in a bag of mixed hackle feathers I was sorting through trying to find a Greenwells hen feather..... and a #2 hook that had been kicking around the bench for a few months, not sure who made it..... or where it came from!
Thread was some old "Sylco" sewing cotton D 258 Golden Cinnamon of Australian manufacture.
Thread down the shank, catch the end of the rabbit strip and wrap the leather/fur strip forward just as you would with a floss or dubbing loop..... just BIGGER. Finish the front with a couple of hackles, henny-cock purple and blue Guinea in this case.
You end up with this........
In my way of thinking it should make a fair imitation of our "Bully" baitfish, for something that is big..... or very hungry!
Wet.
) so I difused the light streaming through the window with the cardboard box light box and snapped away, no editing- just a resize.