Tuesday 27 April 2010

mmmmmmm new stuff to play with

Greg over at piketrek has been babbling on for the last couple of weeks about some new materials he had got hold of and i had a conversation with Ben about the possibility of incorporating the new material into subbugs , so i did a quick step by step in my head and thought that this was actually possible to do but id need to be a wee bit care full with the trimming though but it certainly has given me a few ideas to play with and hopefully ill get a chance to do at least 1 today when i get home for a few hours before my next shift starts ....

its basically a chenille the length of the each piece is 33inchs long and the average width seems to be an inch to an inch and a half long so besides this being possible to use on subbugs it does also open up the possibility's to god knows how many designs for a normal pike fly from sparkly body's to big flashy heads i think this could be a winner ............................

theres a full range of all the colours you would expect for tying pike flys and they are very vibrant as well a welcome addition to any fly


the length of fibres is the key to this stuff i think they got it spot on



mmmmmmm olive perch anyone

below the chartreuse is awesome i can already think of quite a few uses for it so where can you get it well piketrek of course i have been in formed it will be available from Thursday evening but if you go to the site you can always give them a phone and also remember they do ship worldwide

*BREAKING NEWS*

I GOT HOME FOR A COUPLE HOURS IN BETWEEN SHIFTS AND GOT TO TIE A FEW FLIES WITH IT

AWESOME CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR THE RESULTS

mcfluffchucker (no Friends what so ever and clueless barf barf barf)

(a cave in Scotland)

3 comments:

Clif said...

So what is this "stuff" called?

Jeff said...

I've used a similar material for collars and hackles on steelhead flies. I'm looking forward to what you are going to come up with using this stuff.

dave lindsay said...

hi jeff not sure what they are calling it but ill stick a link up on the blog as soon as they have it on the site

i could see the application for steelhead flies with it

all the best