Little help requested for tying with Rainy's Float Foam
Merry Christmas All,
I am tying the foam beetle shown on the Rainys website. It is made out of that Rainys Round Float Foam. The instructions are that you cut off a piece of foam. You then split it in half. You then take fine point scissors and essentially hollow out a wedge shape on either end. This reduces the bulkiness when tied on/off. It also allows the rubber foam to not only go nicely over the peacock body, but also allows the foam to mold around the sides of the fly, making a sharp looking shell back/wing case. In addition the extruded rubber adds a very life like finish to the shellback. My fishing partner swears by this bug.
My question is this. Has anyone tied this particular bug ? If so, is there an easier way to remove the foam than to just carefully and painstakingly, snip it away. Not only is it time consuming, but the snipt off minute pieces of foam, go all over the place creating a mess.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob Duff
AKA Draketake