Hi All,
I used a fly a little this summer that a friend had purchased, and am thinking about tyiing some.
The dubbed body is very flashy, perhaps like a ground up flashabou. It may also be a very fine krystal flash type material, but with very narrow strands, as some of the same color material is in the wing, and it looks like krystal flash, but is very very narrow.
The question is, what is this stuff? In this fly it is perhaps a lime green color.
Thanks and regards for and help,
Gandolf
Gandolf-
UV Ice Dub maybe?
www.kaufmannsstreamborn.com/Catalog/Fly-Tying-Supplies/Materials/Dubbing/HARICEDU/
peregrines
I have some SLF dubbing that fits that description. John
I’m with Bassman, sounds like some type of SLF to me.
I"ve got both Ice Dub and SLF and the Ice dub is definitely flashier.
It sounds like Ice Dub.
Sounds like Angel Hair dubbed on the thread. If it was UV Ice dub you would have noticed the blueish/purple UV fibers
It could also be Lite Brite dubbing.
Steve
Gandolf:
It could also be REGULAR Ice Dub which doesn’t have the purplish hue of the UV version.
There is an Insect Green shade of regular Ice Dub that some folks might call “lime green”. I use it for EWC caddis bodies with great success. My half cocked theory is the flash of the Mylar along with the elk wing simulates movement to the stupid trout or the stupid fisherman who believes in half cocked theories.
I love the ice dub stuff…
Like Bam mentioned, the insect green is great.
I use the peacock ice dub now for everything instead of herl (except on my sneaky low water flies).
Does SLF shine (like tinsel), or is it more of a refraction of light like antron?
could it be wing-N-flash?