Red Tag Bumble - Tutorial/SBS Instructions

[Ruard]

For quite a long time I want to combine a dubbing brush, a hackle and dubbing. Yesterday on a certain moment the Dime fall:

Start the brush as normal, stroke the fibers of quite a long hackle to a 90 degree of the stem and than put over the core thread as normal.

As you wind the dubbing and the hackle together lift the under thread and natural the thread on the upside a bit from the dubbingblock so the hackle can also turn. The dubbing is dark possum and the hackle a black hen hackle. I think that a hackle from the saddle is even better.

I think the pictures speak for themselves.











Here I lift the brush a bit from the dubbingblock.





Greeting


Ruard

[letumgo]

Ruard,

Thank you for the excellent photo tutorial. I am inspired to try this too. It looks like it makes a very durable, and wonderfully scruffy fishing fly (sincere compliment).

Cool dubbing block modifications, by the way. Thank you for sharing & inspiring!

[tie2fish]

Well, Ruard ... aren't you the clever one? This just begs to be tried. Thank you for leading us down a new path with interesting possibilities.

[DOUGSDEN]

Ruard,
What an absolutely terrific way to combine the two elements that all soft-hackle/flymphers admire and enjoy....dubbing and hackle! How clever this is indeed! I love the end results as seen in your Red Tag Bumble! What you do with dubbing bodies is nothing short of fantastic!!
Really impressed with this new technique!
Doug

[redietz]

What a great idea, Ruard. Now I'm wondering if the same technique can be applied to CdC.

[tie2fish]

What a great idea, Ruard. Now I'm wondering if the same technique can be applied to CdC.

Oh boy, oh boy ... probably even easier. Possibilities expanding.

[tie2fish]

Tups flymph made with block-spun brush that had red CDC fibers added to large end of tapered dubbing prior to spinning ...

[daringduffer]

Some cool kittens on this forum.

dd

[DOUGSDEN]

Wow Bill!
I can see the possibities of this technique as being endless! It will be exciting to see the ultra-talented men and women on this forum turned loose with new ideas and color combinations....Ruard, you have created a monster!! In a good sort of way of course!
Dougsden

[Ruard]

Some pictures of more experiments with the dubbing/hackle Technic.





The hackle was a yellow grizzly and the dubbing dark Possum






Here the hackle was black and the dubbing a kind of orange.

Thank you all for the kind words for a technic that goes just a little further with the dubbingblock. Thank you Bill for just trying it. Is the cdc not to soft and to short for it?

Perhaps I can go fishing next week and tell you if the flies work for me.

Greeting

Ruard