Potential Material?

Seeing something as a potential tying material...My wife calls it a sickness, I call it creativity. Anyway, a co-worker makes ladies scarves, etc. out of this stuff. As you can see in the attached picture it is a yarn-like material that has individual strands coming off of the center core. I have not investigated enough to know for sure what it is made from but it definitely appears to me a synthetic material not a natural fiber.

So what potential fly tying applications do any of you see in in this? Although it doesn't show well in the picture, the black material has silver strands woven into the fibers that give it a nice sparkle.

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Originally Posted by Royce

Seeing something as a potential tying material...My wife calls it a sickness, I call it creativity. Anyway, a co-worker makes ladies scarves, etc. out of this stuff. As you can see in the attached picture it is a yarn-like material that has individual strands coming off of the center core. I have not investigated enough to know for sure what it is made from but it definitely appears to me a synthetic material not a natural fiber.

So what potential fly tying applications do any of you see in in this? Although it doesn't show well in the picture, the black material has silver strands woven into the fibers that give it a nice sparkle.

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Why wouldn't it work. It's the same as polar chenille, below. I'm sure it's also a lot cheaper to buy where you found it.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...ed=0CFIQ9QEwAQ

That is eyelash yarn and I've been using it for leach patterns for several years. It also works great as a body material for Gurglers and other popper type patterns as well as crayfish patterns.

Jim Smith

I agree, it works. Been using it on flies and jigs. Makes a nice body material on large tyes with a hair tail. The silver seems to add the right amount of flash to draw the fish into biting the baits.

Ronnie

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Originally Posted by lastchance

Why wouldn't it work. It's the same as polar chenille, below. I'm sure it's also a lot cheaper to buy where you found it.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...ed=0CFIQ9QEwAQ

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It is very different from Polar Chenille... For one thing PC does not absorb water, eyelash yarn soaks it right up. The PC stands right out and produces a larger profile as it does not go limp.

Sorry, I didn't know of what it was made. Taking on water is no problem and it will help it sink.

Check out all the articles on the warm water flies tied with eyelash yarn that Rick Ziegler has posted on FAOL...

I've caught some nice bluegills and crappies on Rick Z's pattern/tie that uses eyelash yarn with sparkle in it. I have a feeling they will also work well for white bass.
Out of the water, they look horrible. But in the water (which is the important part), they become streamlined and have pretty nice action.

I tie a crappie fly with this stuff. use It like you would a dubbing brush. Works great.

I've been using that stuff for years. I tie crawfish patterns, Wooley Buggers, and a host of other patterns with it.