What artificial yarn would you think is best for a wing post or split wing dry flies? I guess I'm asking which ties and floats the best. I use a lot of snowshoe mostly, and it works just fine. I just looking for something in addition.
What artificial yarn would you think is best for a wing post or split wing dry flies? I guess I'm asking which ties and floats the best. I use a lot of snowshoe mostly, and it works just fine. I just looking for something in addition.
Bruce,
Congo Hair (polypropylene, I think) works for me.
Regards,
Scott
Try some of this:
http://www.epflies.com/estore/products/4893
...or this:
http://www.chifly.com/Product/Detail...-Aero-Dry-Wing
PT/TB
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Poly yarn (polypropylene) probably floats best, But I don't care for the look of it.
I've used a lot of different materials and most worked fine. Currently I mostly use either Congo Hair or Widow's Web.
All of these work. I like Widows Web and Hi Viz when I'm looking for a brighter post, but at times have used any of the aforementioned and those flies caught fish.
Polypropylene is the only material you mentioned that has a density less than water and thus is best for dressing dry flies.
Max
Are materials with the word "Poly" usually polypropylene?
A question: since dry fly wings are vertical- or nearly so- above the water, why so much concern about the material's "floatability"? I've often read that a Wulff-style dry fly floats better in part because of the hair wings. Bushy hair tail? Sure. Heavy hackle? Absolutely. But high-riding hair wings? I really don't think so. Thus I choose the material(s) for my post wings, for example, by how they look to me, and how easy or hard it is to wrap a parachute hackle around them. Just my $0.05 (due to inflation).
Chuck