Another boa attempt

[Rick Z]

Got the idea for this from Beattys' book on "rotary tying".

What do you think?

[Normand]

what is it

try some short eyelash yarn

http://singlebarbed.com/2009/01/26/i...do-bad-things/

[Loopy]

It looks synthetic.

[Eric-WD]

Its BOA yarn

http://www.bernat.com/product.php?LGC=boa\

Rick it looks like this thing I had as a kid, it was attached to some thin mono, and you did tricks with it by pulling the mono.

I think it will catch fish, probably big ones.


Eric

[joe cool]

Anything yellow, long, and wiggly with lots of moving parts sounds like a good concept to me


Eric, they still sell those things. Ive seen them in gift shops in Florida complete with a video showing how to do different tricks

[wayneb]

Hey Rick;

Interesting looking fly, looks like it has of movement!

Is the tail formed with a dubbing loop? I can't quite figure out how the red thread got in there.

Wayneb

[Buddy Sanders]

Red part is wire.

The yarn is twisted with the wire to form a wing. The Beatty's do it with feathers in their book....

Nice application, Rick! I'm curious about how it moves in the water...and what the effect of 'bending' it into different positions will have....got to play with that one too.....

Buddy

[wayneb]

A Dubbing brush??

Wayneb

[Buddy Sanders]

Sort of...

What you do is pull a loop of wire off the front of a hook, then tie in the feather/yarn/whatever (or vise versa, not critical which you do first). Hold both together in front of the hook and rotate the vise to spin the two together. You can then cut the 'wing' off to tie in later, or just fold it back and tie it in after it's constructed.

I did a few of these with feathers, but I just caught both the wire and the feather stem in the vise jaws...faster and you get the same results.

Buddy

[ol' blue]

I wonder what would happen if you furled boa or eyelash yarn like you would a leader. That might leave a more "floppy" tail. I'll try some tonight just for fun.