Used Ryan Houston’s version as a base and added a bit of color up front.
hook - Mustad 3906 #8
thread - Danville 6/0 wine
tail - dyed red golden pheasant tippet
rib - oval tinsel gold
rear body - dubbing claret
front body - dubbing red
rear hackle - claret (1Tbs Rit wine/1 cup water)
front hackle - red
collar - guinea dyed faux Jay (Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry 2 packs, 1/4 tsp blue food coloring/1 cup of water)
Regards,
Scott
Scott,
That’s a great shade of blue. Do you use a fixative like vinegar in your dyes or is the Kool-Aid + food coloring mix enough to set the dye?
Alberto
Alberto,
Definitely add vinegar. I swear I had a thread on here showing how I dyed with Koolaid (pretty much the same when using RIT dye) but I can’t find it. Here’s a link to it over on the Washington Flyfishing site. I’ve got to move those pics off of Photobucket, re-load and I’ll post it over here.
Regards,
Scott
Thanks Scott! It’s been a while since I have done any material dyeing with Kool-A-d but I do remember vinegar was needed for setting the color. I wanted to make sure this was still the case.
Alberto,
You’re welcome. To tell the truth, I’ve switched over to RIT for most of my dyeing now - color selection is good and it’s much easier to mix and get consistent results; it was a crapshoot with Koolaid.
Regards,
Scott