A Mickie Finn and Black-Nosed Dace With EP Silky Fibres
Comets with Iceabou
Any chance you would have a link those new materials as well as a link to the patterns? Heck I might just try those…By the way nice job!!! 
Nice flies.
I noticed that the Comets were dressed with the chain-bead eyes on top of the hook.
Would this not make them fish hook upwards, and, does this not matter?
Or do you prefer them to fish this way?
The Comets don’t really seem to have an up or downside, apart from the hook orientation that is.
Flyrodde,
Those Comets are so bright, I had to put on my sun glasses.
Doug 8)
Those are the first comets I’ve tied, so I don’t know if the bead on top or on bottom matters. The tutorial I followed for the pattern has the beedchain on top of the hook, so thats what I did. The beads are pretty light though so I think the hook bend would cancel out the weight on top. I have 10-12 wraps of nonlead wire to weight those flies which should make them pretty stable. But like you said, they are pretty much the same all the way around, so I doubt it matters too much anyway.
The flies are tied this way so the hook will not snag rocks, haven’t you ever seen a Clouser?
do hollow bead chain eyes weigh enough to turn the fly upside down???
I don’t think they do. And every picture of a comet I have seen has the beadchain on the top, but the profile of the fly is hook point down. To me that says the fly should ride hook down in the water. Just my reasoning.
Bead chain in a normal size on a normal hook tied close to the shank will not be enough weight to turn the fly upside down.
I use bead chain for eyes when I don’t want the hook to ride point up and dumbell eyes when I want it to ride up.
Those Comets are called One Material Comet… you can find out how to tie them at the following location: http://www.flyguysoutfitting.com/
Just look under Fly Tying Tutorials… They are simple to tie… Good Luck…
That is exactly where I found the receipe for the comets.
I tie some big streamers with bead-chain eyes on top of the shank - they almost always ride point-down. They probably have a density similar to that of the hook.
Marty