Conover Muskrat

[William Anderson]

Good lord, there is a lot to respond to. Maybe I'll have to keep coming back to this as comments occur to me. Bill said it, beautiful pics, bodies, dub blends and a really great post. Thanks for taking the time to share this.

For these flies, you've got several backgrounds that work, the darker grays and the darker blue. With that complex body and brown mottled hackle you don't loose parts of the fly. It does shift from background to background, making the fly read differently. (yes, Vicki already covered this wonderfully)

I like that wool/muskrat blend too. Those do make fantastic bodies. Nice flies.

w

[tie2fish]

by CreationBear » July 1st, 2011, 8:27 am

I hope there is no charge for awesomenss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh_MclxU_48

[willowhead]

to cool.....

[letumgo]

LOL!!! And a really big smile

I loved that movie. The second version is even better ( more story).

Thanks guys.

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Ray,

Love the pics and the spectrumized dubbing. Roy Christie is a fine of multicolored dubbings. Only a dead bug is monochrome, the live ones are multicolored. Well done on creating a "live" imitation.

REE

[letumgo]

CB - I missed your question earlier. The flies above, were tyed by tightly twisting a thin layer of dubbing onto the tying threaded. The dubbing is tapered slightly by adding a little more dubbing towards the front of the body.

Bill (tye2fish) - I received the dubbing wax, in this afternoons mail. I have been playing around with it this evening. I love the consistency and the tackiness. I tyed a couple flies with a touch-dub technique and was amazed how well it works. I just lightly ran the wax along the thread and when I touched a small ball of loose dubbing against the thread, the dubbing grabs hold. I didn't even have to press the dubbing against the thread. I like how the wax makes the thread tacky, without gumming it up with a lot of excess bits of wax. Some tacky waxes are messy, in that respect, but yours works cleanly.

Here is one of the flies I tyed with your wax, over orange tying thread. The body of the fly ends up being nice and fuzzy, with little effort.



Thanks for the tying wax. I can already tell I am going to get a lot of use out to this.

[William Anderson]

I'll second the wax. I've used it exclusively since I got a bit. Love it. I left it wrapped in the foil and put some clear tape on the foil to make it clean to handle and have on my station. I just peel a little bit of foil back, like a hershey bar. I really like it a lot.

Nice dub body.

w

[willowhead]

WOW! what an incedable tye..........that puppy is REDICKALUS! WOW!!

[hankaye]

Ray, Howdy;

BIG 4 STARS for that one...........

hank

[DUBBN]

That is a spectacular adaption of the Muskrat. If I wasnt getting ready to hit the road (vacation) in a few minutes I would give a long winded account of red dubbing mixed with Hares Ear that produces for me on the Roaring Fork.