"Fuzzy" Biot Body Alternative for Tiny Flies

[Bruce Norikane]

thanks herefishy, I'll check out Feather Craft.

[DUB]

Joe, I colored a few pheasant fibers with a Black Sharpie. Made my little size 20 SH Emergers look pretty good.

[Joe Billingsley]

DUB,
It's a lot easier than battling a biot on those little flies, isn't it?

Joe

[herefishy]

I must be missing something - using a turkey round for the body is different, isn't it, from taking a fiber and using it as kind of a rib over a thread body to look the way a biot does?

[DUB]

The Biot emerger has been a killer pattern for me this Spring. I hope your Pheasant Fiber variant works as well. I bet it will.

I have been using Super Glue on the biot patterns for a few years now.

Thanks Joe


Roys Biot Emerger (variation) size 20


Pheasant Fiber size 20

[Byron haugh]

I must be missing something - using a turkey round for the body is different, isn't it, from taking a fiber and using it as kind of a rib over a thread body to look the way a biot does?

Different, but, I thought, a similar procedure well demonstrated

[Bruce Norikane]

... tie in a single pheasant tail fiber of the appropriate color, wrap a thread body, dab it with small amount of super glue, and then rib it with the pheasant tail fiber while the glue is still wet. The result is a body that looks just like a biot body with the fuzzy ribbing ...

Joe

Joe - Do you wrap it in touching turns like in Dub's photo?

or more open, like a rib showing the thread body.

BTW - this is a great technique, and much quicker than biots. Thanks

[Joe Billingsley]

Bruce,
I wrap it in open turns like a rib showing the thread body. By sometimes using a lighter colored thread with a darker pheasant fiber, you get the same segmented look as the darker fuzzy edge of the biot.

Joe

[Bruce Norikane]

Different, but, I thought, a similar procedure well demonstrated

Thanks for the link, Byron. I like that style for small flies quite a bit and learned about a new feather to use for bodies.

Turkey rounds are now my favorite new material. They are inexpensive, come in a wide variety of colors and look great on tiny flies.