I posted below about gathering fly tying materials where you find them. I remarked upon finding a carpet remnant and that I harvested a few patches. So, I experimented with a single, twisted strand of Antron yarn. I tied in a copper wire ribbing at the bend of the hook. Then I laid the strand atop the shank of a size 16 hook and secured the carpet fiber at the thorax area. Then the ribbing was wrapped over the yarn from the rear to the front…about 4 turns. The carpet fiber stayed atop the shank, much like the Poopah patterns. A CDC feather was tied in by the tip and wrapped a couple of times around the shank and followed by a CDC wing of two bunched feathers. The wire ribbing is a tad too heavy…I should go thinner. Nothing innovative here…just used a carpet fiber from a remnant headed to the dump. Recycling of sorts.
Carpet Caddis (SwittersB)
Carpet Caddis (SwittersB)
How creative, I didn’t even know carpet was used. Any other unique products used?
Well, ‘unique’ is the optimum word. Today we use more synthetics than say 20 years ago. Animal fur is less used today, with the exception of rabbit. There are new synthetic fibers that are used for streamer patterns for salt water, pike, salmon etc. that are amazing in certain tier’s hands. I think maybe the unique label has to go not so much to a unique material, as to unique design and creation by so many excellent tiers. Thanks for dropping by again.