In the Wedding section of Michaels, get 1/8 irridescent ribbon. Great for flashback on flies, picked apart looks like crystal flash. If you can find them KooshBalls. The rubber is a little stiffer than most bungee material and does not catch back in the hook gap so much. Small foam flowers from a craft store broken apart make a great blue damselfly body, a needle (eye) pushed into a simple wooden skewer ( in different sizes ) works great for bodkins. ( Wrap end of skewer with thread and super glue liberally. ) The insulation off telephone wire strands makes for stiffer legs on hoppers, talk to a turkey hunter to get turkey feathers. Black sparkle yarn at hobby lobby really moves a lot in the water, hobby lobby also bought 10 continuous yards of white and 10 continuous yards black of rabbit strips for 75 cents each on close out.