Chewstone nymph
Chawstone?
Body: homemade gooey-soft sheeting made from worm resin poured onto a tupperware dishpan. That layer is later on covered with a brown-spotted but unknown soft plastic sheeting (free samples from a distributor). Lead weight sandwiched between the two sheets in the thorax area, and then wrapped on a needle. Slide it off the needle. Sew in a few rubber legs. Mount a scud hook on top, bedded into CA glue. The weight is on the under-side of sharply-curved scud hook, which forces the hook to ride up at all times.
It's gooey soft and flexible from end to end.
Fish bite, hang on and swim away while slowly chewing.
It is a bit time consuming to make at this point. But it doesn't have to stay that way.
Prototypes have a three step process:
1) make one at any cost
2) see if it works
3) figure out how to make it quicker, if and only if step two is promising.
I'm already past one and two, and working on step three.
This one is worth working on. This is a fish catching sonofagun.
Really.
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