I’m sure this has been answered somewhere. If so, have patience. Please. Somewhere on FAOL I once read about using the foil on the top of wine bottles as a fly tying material. If so, how? I love the colors and have been saving some foil. I did find some cool veggie netting over in Germany back in May (the asparagus was to die for!!!) in a brilliant red and yellow that I’ve used in flies. My next shot is a partridge and yellow with the stuff. Appreciate any answers. Thanks. JGW
i’m not sure but it could be used as wingcases, and the tops of crayfishes.
wingcases, scudbacks, stonefly bodies, bodies, ribbing? 8)
From my reading on various subjects, some use it as under body weighting material for lightly weighted flies, also to build a tapered underbody on said flies. Pretty fragile stuff really and doesn’t hold up too well under toothy bites. Better as an underbody.
REE
Years ago we used to use the stuff to weight flies, but mostly to weight your leaders to get the fly deeper.
Back then it wasn’t the tin foil stuff you see today, it was actually made out of lead. It was a great material really thin lead and easy to wrap around leaders, not to mention you got a lot of the stuff per bottle. It would taper nicely on the tippet not like a ball of split shot. It was after we used it on leaders and tippet they started using it on hooks.
Bud
Bud is right, the foil on wine bottles was lead, now-a-days it is almost always plastic.
It can be quite hard to tell while it is on the shelf. Sticky backed lead foil is available over here
from tying suppliers, it maybe illegal in some of your States.
A lot of flies have used sweetie (candy) wrappers, which have a wide variety of colours.
Here is quite an old one of mine using unravelled orange netting from an orange bag.
couldnt you coat it with some sally hansens or cement??
flyandtie,
Yes, you could coat it, but with the materials available, why bother? Just use something tougher to start with.
REE
hahaha true true
You know, if you used a Champagne bottle, the material would still handle like lead. Very thick metal foil, and if you cut a thin strip you could use it to weight a fly.
Just another reason to open up some Champagne…
I use it to weight nymphs. almost exclusively. I no longer bother w/ the lead wire. my sister waits tables at a high end french restaurant and I’ve got an incredible amount of the stuff and constantly get more.
it’s great stuff.