Just a quick and dirty way to make small mayflies.
PMD (Left)
Hook: Firehole 413, size 16
Thread: White Veevus 14/0 (didn’t have a nice PMD Yellow and my other colors were too dark)
Extended Body: Furled FTD Congo Hair, Pale Yellow
Thorax: FTD Bull Frawg, PMD
Wing: CDC Puff, PMD
BWO (Right)
Hook: Firehole 413, size 18
Thread: Olive Veevus 14/0
Extended Body: Furled FTD Congo Hair, Baitfish Olive
Thorax: FTD Bull Frawg, BWO
Wing: CDC Puff, Natural
looks like a winner to me. Thanks for posting
Neat idea.
Rick
They will work. Nice flies and great idea.
Thanks guys!
… and I can testify to the effectiveness of the FEB ( furled extended body ) flies with almost ten years experience with them in various sizes and patterns.
If you go to the FAOL Fly of the Week archives at 6-18-12 for Duck’s Green Drake, you will get an idea how to incorporate tails into your extended furled body flies.
Moose hair is a bit too stiff for a good effect on size 18 flies because of it’s resistance to the furling process, but works well on larger flies.
My experience is that you don’t really need the tails on the smaller flies, but they are a nice touch, and I do think they really enhance the effectiveness of the larger flies.
John
nice ties, just what is congo hair, I have seen it referenced a number of times on this site, but have never used it is it a high floatant material
Congo hair comes from the flytyersdungeon.com
Polypropylene yarn, sheds water pretty well; same stuff as EP fibers, Widow’s Web, etc but a lot cheaper. As Rick said, [b]Flytyer’s Dungeon[/b] carries it.
Regards,
Scott
I’ve read through that a while ago and totally forgot about it. I’m for sure going to have to try that. I’m sure using some finer hair such as squirrel would work well for smaller flies.
Nice job, you can cut a thin strip from craft foam and furl it.
That is a great way to do it too! I have tied some caddis patterns with that technique before to much success.