MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
I use the Uni-mylar or Uni-French but I also really like the Lagartun products. On flies for fishing i don't think the fish can tell the differance and I don't tie many flies for show B)
I think thats what most people use these days is mylar. One it dosent rust and one it wraps easier and is cheep . I used silver on my grey gost but If I were to tie one that I wanted to fish I would go with mylar.
I use largatun oval mostly....But use flat silver on salmon flies....
I relegate the mylar to trout flies and streamers.
Stephen
Stephen do you fish with the flies tied with silver ? Have you ever used the tinsel off your Christmas tree ?
One of my favourite trout flies is a reduced silver doctor that
has a silver body and rib. A married yellow, red, blue wing,,,veiled with barred mallard....Also a blue hackle and a golden pheasant tippit tail,...
And yes ...on occasion I use Xmas tree tinsel...I have a bag of
holographic hid away somewhere from a Xmas past. I was also
told that one of those emergency blankets that you can get for a
couple of bucks will yield a lot of tinsel.
Stephen
Do any of you still use silver on steel tinsel on your flies ? I notice when using Silver its tougher to wind compared to other types. What is your take on this ?
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was
cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.
On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words,
and some of the words are theirs.