Has anyone used this material before? I got some in a grab bag and am not sure what to do with it. I guess I am wondering if it floats or if I can chop it up and dub with it or what? Any suggestions or favorite patterns with this stuff will be apprieciated.
try it for streamers and any minnow pattern. I tried winding it for a body, but it did not work well for that. I have Super Hair is a few colors.
Excellent for Surf Candy style flys
Don’t be put off that it is a saltwater material
Just think of it as real tough bucktail
Georgiared,
If it’s what I think it-- long and translucent synthetic (?) we use it a lot up here in the northeast in salt water on flies like Popovic’s Surf Candy (using 5 minute epoxy)
http://www.stripersurf.com/FG_SurfCandy.html
Here are some flies from the FOAL fly archives to give you some ideas on acheiving different shapes:
Spectra Streamer
Spread fly
Flash Anchovy
Paul?s Polar Fiber Minnow
Kinky Fly
If you don’t do salt water, you could modify these styles to imitate shad etc for bass using the designs with a deeper profile.
Good luck.
peregrines
I cannot recall where I saw the article, but a tyer was tying small chironomids and using three superhair fibers for the bodies. He was using two of one color and one of another to make segmented bodies. They were nice looking flies.
Lee’s thinking of Charlie Craven’s “Jujubee Midge” which really is a cool little pattern: http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox … arentID=95
You can basically use it as body material by wrapping it like you would wire (think chironomids and San Juan worms). Can also be used as ribbing material.
I use it. I’m in the Northeast also, but I use it for salt and fresh water flies. What I like to do is take a pack of Super or Ultra Hair and blend it with a pack of PolarFlash or SparkleFlash. This lets me spread the flash through the pattern rather than clumping it, and I’ve found it adds movement to the material, and makes it easier to taper the material. Here are a couple of flies.
Top one is a Jiggy and the bottom one is a Surf Candy
Georgiared,
Initially intended as a ‘streamer’ material for Clousers, surf candy, and such, it has been, as usually happens with such a creative group as fly tyers, used for many things.
I still use it for some pike streamers, but I do find that my most common use for it now is as a ribbing/body material for small nymphs/midges, and for legs on some ties.
It’s tough, translucent, and inexpensive. You can ‘bend’ it with a bit of heat, and it holds the shape well.
Play ith it, maybe you’ll find something that others have missed.
Good Luck!
Buddy
whatfly,
Grand link. Nice effect for those "C"s 
Gotta make some.
…lee s.