Dream Catcher

All about flies Fly Tying
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I don’t know if I posted this before or not. I made this last December, but then moved right after Christmas. This got burried in fly stuff during move.

I was sitting in traffic one day and the car in front of me had a dream catcher hanging from his rear view mirror. I must have been subconsciously thinking of fly tying because the thought just popped in my head. Tie a dream catcher on a hook. the rest of the way home I was trying to come up with ideas on how to make a circle with out breaking a hook. I ended up epoxying 2 1/0 hooks together to get the most round circle I could. After the epoxy set up. I used a dremel with a grinding die to smooth it and true up the circle. Tying the rest was relatively easy. Floss, thread, round tinsel, hackle tips beads and the web in the catcher is a heavy waxed thread about size A.

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that’s a lot prettier than most of the ones on car mirrors! good job!

3

Neat idea, very creative and nice work. Does it only catch little dreams;)

Thanks for sharing.

Jim Smith

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Bass Bug,

Very nice. Now find a crib or cradle board to hang it over to catch the bad dreams.

REE

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but can you do it on a size 32? Just kidding! Looks great, cool idea.

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Hmmm that sounded like a challenge…actually the EYE of 4/0 is about the hook gap of a 32 I bet? Instead of size A thread maybe 12/0 thread…Sorry I don’t think my eyes can handle that.

REE, Crib/Cradle??? It’s hanging from MY rearview mirror for when I fall asleep at the wheel.:shock:

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Bass, in regard to REE’s comment, look up the Native American history of dream catchers…