Being inspired by some of Al Campbell's fly recipes on FAOL, I pursued obtaining some Punch yarn. Local shops;fly tying,handcraft and sewing, never heard of it but there is a distributor in Michigan who has a great variety of this fine,strong,slightly fuzzy two ply acrylic yarn at very modest prices.(200 yard spool for $1.80) I just received my order and it's like discovering sliced bread. I tried using it as a regular body material. I piled on 3 and 4 layers to build up larger streamer bodies. I split the plies to make a very fine body wrap that, to me, looked right for size 16 hooks. Then I chopped it into little pieces and hand-teased and blended some into dubbing finer than Flyrite. In an FAOL site it even shows Al Campbell winding it on using a bobbin and doing whip finishes.
Am I missing something? Why has this old material been neglected for so long?

[This message has been edited by Ray Kunz (edited 24 December 2005).]