Dremmell bugs

[check your fly]

You might consider using your bench vice to hold the dremmell handpiece if you don't want to construct a lathe. Wrap the handpiece in a piece of foam pipe insulation first. This has worked well for me.

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Chuck Hitt

[Jim Hatch]

Hi Chuck,

You can do that for sure. But do be
careful. The plastic housing can easily
be crushed in the mechanical vise. You
can also fasten the dremel to a piece of
wood with cable ties. But the method I
used in the article was pretty basic and
has served me for more than 2 years.
Took all of half an hour and cost under a
buck. Warm regards, Jim

[dixieangler]

I use c-clamps on a base board (a little wider) screwed to and under the board that holds the handpiece with foam padded pipe straps. This way, its portable and I can set it up now anywhere I want.

BTW, my best fly last season was a yellow foam pusher (Dinny type Dremel bug) on a #8 Aberdeen hook. Like the one Jim has pictured below the "Flying Pig" fly. I caught LMB, bluegill, pumpkinseed, shellcracker (redear), red-breasted sunfish, warmouth, gar, pickerel, and an exotic Cichlid all on that pusher last season. Its now a surface fly that I don't leave home without .


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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL

"Flip a fly"

[Jim Hatch]

Hey Robert,

Sounds like a neat idea. Might work for
others as well. I knew I'd be using mine
a lot so I mounted it on the front edge of
my bench. I modified my portable tying
bench to slip over top of it and it's a very
comfortable position for me to shape bodies
or tie the flies.

The modified Denny style slider you
mentioned was a good one for me. Worked
well for largemouth here in a #6. As it
happens, I did a swap with Al Beatty and
that fly was laying on my bench. I threw
it in the box as an afterthought. Al picked
it to appear in Flyfish America magazine.*G*
By the way, probably half of my dremel bugs
are tied on #8 Aberdeen hooks. I also use
the extended crappy aberdeens for some
patterns. Makes it nice when you can buy
fly hooks at the local bait shop or Wallyworld. Warm regards, Jim

[Diane]

There are lots of ways to mount the dremel lathe. Here's what works for me. I have a clamp screwed to a wood scrap with a v cut in it. The clamp holds the dremel. Another clamp holds the whole thing down wherever I want it.

Take a look: [url=http://www.dianemaluso.org/ff/dremellathe.jpg:b413e]http://www.dianemaluso.org/ff/dremellathe.jpg[/url:b413e]