I purchased some CDC yesterday and tied my first dry flies last night. I used the CdC for the post, and it did not feel right. I just watched some of the video in the link from Normands great thread below, and it looks like the post in one of the videos is a synthetic material. Wht would you guys use for making a post on a dry fly? Also, the tail was a painbrush material, would calf hair work on a dry?
I use polypropelyene (sp?) yarn for my posts…or calf body hair. The natural material I like better for fishing, but the synthetic is far easier to work with at the vise.
For the tails, you can use whatever you’d use for any other dry: microfibbets (paint brush fibers), spade hackle, CDL, moose hair, buck tail, etc.
I like poly yarn for my posts on parachutes also. I’ve tried about everything and always go back to poly yarn. Dab a little Gink into the post and it will float forever!
Congo Hair (synthetic like EP fibers); sheds water, easy to work with, lots of colors, cheap.
Regards,
Scott
zelon from blue ribbon flies, congo hair from flytyersdungeon.com
As always Thanks for the info.
I tend to use white antron and it seems to work fine.
zlon, darlon, poly yarn, turkey t-base feathers, calf tail, aunt lydias rug yarn etc etc etc for our sponsors of course!
Antron or Poly yarn for the most part. I use turkey flats quite often as well.
I like to use “cerise” (basically florescent pink, for visibility) colored McFlylon. Here it is pictured in a FOTW I did a couple of years ago.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/110506fotw.php
Peter F.
I personally use most of the above mentioned. I don’t like CDC because, as far as I’m concerned it absorbs water to easily and become a mess. I like T-Base better than CDC. My opiion.
Bruce
Turkey T-Base is my favorite, but if I want a really slim thorax a synthetic like poly-yarn or antron is better. Foam posts work great but just don’t look right to me. Calf tail is good but bulky and more difficult to work with than T-base. My 2-cents.
Cliff