Anyone use ice dubbing? I hear a lot of good things about it but have never handled it or fished a fly made with it. What are your impressions?
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Anyone use ice dubbing? I hear a lot of good things about it but have never handled it or fished a fly made with it. What are your impressions?
Babe's Curse,
I recently added a set of Vince Wilcox flies to my page. Many of the patterns use Ice Dub. Why not take a look. Here is a sample image:
http://www.danica.com/flytier/vwilcox/tnt.jpg
The rest of the patterns, plus full recipes:
[url=http://www.danica.com/flytier/vwilcox/vwilcox.htm:18e6c]http://www.danica.com/flytier/vwilcox/vwilcox.htm[/url:18e6c]
Ice Dub is also a very suitable material to use the Rope Dubbing technique as illustrated here by Don Ordes:
[url=http://www.virtualflybox.com/articles/article.php?id=5:18e6c]http://www.virtualflybox.com/articles/article.php?id=5[/url:18e6c]
Cheers,
Hans W
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[This message has been edited by Hans Weilenmann (edited 29 March 2005).]
I use a lot of it for nymph thoraxes and a few patterns that use it for the abdomen, like a scud or stone. It's a great product.
I like it for scuds and other subsurface patterns. I usually use it straight. Recently though, I tried chopping some of the shrimp pink color up and mixing it with squirrel in a dubbing loop made of fine copper wire. The resulting twigs or dubbing brushes as I call them, are real handy for tying up a bunch of pink squirrels. They're easier for me to use than a thread dubbing loop because you can let go of them and they don't unwind.
Ice Dub plus hare's mask is good for GRHE's
A friend dubs it directly onto thicker wire with super glue for his scuds and nymphs, no twisting into a loop. Just dab the glue on the wire and stick the dub on before wrapping it onto your nymph.
I'm thinking of adding it to dry fly wings for greater visiblity.
Great Stuff. I find it provides just the right amount of flash in some of the nymph patterns I tie. The material also works very well for trailing shucks and under-wing cases.
Another two thumbs up for Hareline's Ice dubbing. It's very easy to use for all sorts of flies. I use it mostly for caddis and dragon nymphs as well as dressing up the old DocSpratley. One of my most successful flies is the Pennask Special.
http://www.flymaker.com/bbGallery/McIntosh-pennask.jpg
Sounds like I gotta place an order. Thanks for all your input. That dubbing rope technique is pretty slick. I got some tying to do, opening day in NY is Friday. Yeee Haa!!
Babe's,
I like to blend it with the naturals to add a bit of spice to the recipe.
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Izzat kinda the same stuff used in parts of these?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...s/CIMG0491.jpg
Or this? [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/leesoares/CIMG0211.jpg:450d3]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/leesoares/CIMG0211.jpg[/url:450d3]
SheTies
That one nice fly you have there, You should think on submiting it for fly of the week.
Ghost