The idea is to post images of the recycled and free or cheap material that you use… I’m doing this because I’m from Chile and I don’t recognize many of the materials that you mention, so maybe we can know of what we are talking about whith the images and also see the flies that are made.
I’ll start posting the images of the chain eyes that I use.
I get this chain from my bathroom, but I’m sure you can get it from somewere else or even buy it, it must be very cheap.
Cut two sections of the chain
Attach the eyes to the hook, they also add a little weight to the fly
Tie the fly, and go fishing.
I hope you can post flies you made with this eyes and other materials that you use.
good topic. Thank your for posting it.
We call those eyes on our fly “bead chain” and yes it is a useful thing for we tyers. You might be interested in this swap that is just now ending. Next week there will be pictures and fly recipies listing all of the odd and unusual items we used to tie our flies.
Well I have this one in another post called Crappie Candy, but it has bead chain eyes. Keep in mind I am a new fly tier, but have tied crappie jigs for a good while…
Then a Clouser…
However for the Clouser I believe this one using dumbbell eyes is better since it has more weight…
Here on the NE coast you’ll often find foam lobster buoys washed up on shore.
Tourists might collect one or two good ones as home decorations, but I find they’re just the thing for building poppers…even the broken ones
I use a saw to cut them in to slices the length I want my popper bodies to be, then punch out cylinders with a jig make from a sharpened piece of copper pipe
Keep your eyes open for different colors. I have white, yellow, orange, red and blue.
