sconnie
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Had a guy give me some nice looking pike flies to try out. He got them from another fisherman but doesn’t fish pike. They are tubes and the tyer has created the heads and back stopped the other material with what appears to be a “cone” of material very similar to a Chinese finger traps (plastic cross hatch tubing ).
It seems a great way to lighten up the head and additionally to flair the material, making it bulky without to much weight.
Does anyone else do this? It’s the first time I have seen this technique ( maybe it has a name I can look up?) I’d be interested in any tips on how to work with the tubing or where to find something similar. It appears it was melted to keep it in place, my luck I would burn up the other materials. This certainly might have been covered in one of the other forums, sorry if it’s redundant.
It seems a great way to lighten up the head and additionally to flair the material, making it bulky without to much weight.
Does anyone else do this? It’s the first time I have seen this technique ( maybe it has a name I can look up?) I’d be interested in any tips on how to work with the tubing or where to find something similar. It appears it was melted to keep it in place, my luck I would burn up the other materials. This certainly might have been covered in one of the other forums, sorry if it’s redundant.
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