Hot Glue Fly Patterns

[lastchance]

Does anyone have any trout fly patterns that call for a hot glue gun?
I'm not interested in egg flies.
Thanks

[johnstoeckel]

I used to use it for the shellback on scud flies like ...
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Takes some practice to manipulate the glue gun to get a taper to the shell and to figure out how long to let the glue set before winding the ribbing so you get a nice segmentation without cutting into the shellback. Makes a nice translucent shell scud with a more precise cross section. However, I've gone back to less time consuming methods. I also did a similar technique for crayfish shells which looked pretty cool.

[whatfly]

Does anyone have any trout fly patterns that call for a hot glue gun?
I'm not interested in egg flies.
Thanks

Does Egg Sucking Leech count? Played with glue gun flies for a time, but egg patterns were about all I finished with in the end...and I don't use those much anymore either. Hope you find some patterns...

[FishnDave]

Some folks use hot glue to build/shape the underbody of a Zonker fly pattern, before they slide the mylar tubing over it.

[Rick Z]

Have seen an ant body done with hot glue.
Black or red marker to color the glue after it cools down a little, but while still warm.

Rick

[AlanB]

You can get Hot Melt Glue in various colours. Barry Ord-Clark has several patterns that use this. One is his Mutantz, he also ties a caddis pupa and a streamer with it. I can't locate the later ones but the ant is here.
http://thefeatherbender.com/2012/07/24/tying-mutantz/
I've contacted him for links to the others and will post when I have a reply.
Cheers,
A.

[AlanB]

Here is a link to tying instructions with Hot Melt Glue from Barry Ord Clark.
Cheers,
A.

[Buddy Sanders]

I found some pearl like hot glue, was white with some glitter in it, that I used to make up some minnow type bodies. Looked good at first, but it yellowed quickly....never fished them.

Buddy

[AlanB]

Finally found it!!!
This is Barry Ord-Clarks Virtual Minnow.
Cheers,
A.