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    Default Carnage Paradrake SBS




    Figured I'd try the Carnage body on a drake. Wasn't too sure how it would work and looking at the results, I've got a ways to go to get a properly tapered body. This is the first attempt but hopefully, you get the idea; pretty raw but even so, it'll float and I'm going to try find out this week if it'll fish.


    hook - Dai Riki 125 #14
    thread - UTC 140 tan
    tail - elk hair
    body - .5mm foam
    wing post - Congo Hair white
    hackle - barred cream
    thorax - dubbing tan


    Part 1

    poke a hole in a strip of .5mm foam (1/2 hook gap width)







    slide on needle (inserted in vise)







    coat needle with Mucilin (or wax)







    start thread on needle







    clean and stack a few elk hair fibers







    lay fibers on needle and tie in with a few wraps










    trim butts, tie off thread and slide foam up against tail







    brush on a little Super Glue



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    Part 2

    grab the tag end and spiral the foam up the needle










    then slide the body off the needle; trim tag end







    mash the hook barb, insert in vise and wrap thread to hook point







    position body on hook, coat thread wraps and about 1/2" of foam with Super Glue







    wrap body forward a few turns, tie off and trim










    tie in a hank of Congo Hair and post up; then tie in hackle









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    Part 3

    apply some dubbing and dub thorax; return thread to position at base of post










    start wrapping hackle from the top of the post down










    let the hackle hang down; take 2 turns of thread at base of post, trapping hackle







    half hitch x2 at hook eye, SHHAN, trim wing post and you're done










    Need to work on body taper; wider turns to start, closer together to make it a bit thicker at the base - I think. A few less tail fibers would probably be in order, too; I'll play around a little. Don't know that I'd go much smaller than a #14.


    Regards,
    Scott

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    Stretching the foam, starting the initial wraps as wide as possible with lots of tension and very little overlap, then decreasing tension and increasing overlap created the taper I was looking for. Also switched to the Dai Riki 135 (scud hook) to get a little more weight on the underside.









    Took it out for a test drive and it landed upright and floated like a champ, even during a downpour. Didn't catch anything on it (managed a very nice squawfish on a foam skwala) but I'm not sure there are any trout in the part of the stream I was fishing anyway.

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    Scott

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    Probably going to miss the green drake hatch but I'll downsize it a bit for flavs; olive grizzly hackle's 2700 miles away so subbed dun grizzly.

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    Scott

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    Beautiful flies.

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    Looking at the pattern, very nice by-the-way, and I wonder if it floats as well as you describe because of the effect of the parachute hackle, or the body material, or both? It just seems that when the foam is compressed, as it appears was done as it was wound along the shank, it would lose its floatation characteristic.

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