Wierdest tying material you ever used.

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Some of us tend to use funny stuff to tie flies. Some of us are hooked or addicted to fly tying. Now after starting to tie flies, everything I see in a different view (can use for fly or not ar) .

I’ve heard some uses wife’s pantyhose(dron), most of us definitely got the feather duster for free heckles. Let’s share what are some of the funny stuff we all use. I’ll start the ball rolling.

  1. Dental Floss
  2. My dog’s fur lol
  3. Piece of wood from a broken parquet floor.
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I personaly like to use :

  1. vinyl double side tape, be it transperant or dark gray colour… for my nymph body and buah maris…which can be found in ACE hardware…
  2. Since we could not get any polywing locally… we could replace it with 3M magic tape… it takes colour easily…
  3. Rafeea string… you can get these in many colours… white, yellow, green, red, pink… good to do segmental for nymph body or shrimp…
  4. Painting brush… with syntetic brush… good as tail and antennae.. I have bought paul whillock realistic Antennae and tails.. compare with
    the fibre from my brush… I don’t see any different…
  5. Felt cushion for our chair leg’s base from Ikea or any hardware shop will be an ideal material to tie as crab shell…
  6. Sand paper… in lite sand colour that can be found in Ace hardware also an ideal material fo crab shell…
  7. Dish washing foam in white colour also tie beautiful crab shell…
  8. Mono line, burn at end become a good mono eye…
  9. Micropore surgical tape are another ideal material to create wing buds…
    10)Colourful plastic bead are commonly use in nymph… and also as eyes…
    11)Doll eye from stationary shop make your mice or popper looks like toy…
    12)Toothpick are ideal for widerning your nymph body…
    13)Hard wire are tie to hook for extension or tenden pattern…
    14)Wife quick dry finger nail gloss can be a good cement…
    15)Try use mini luminiouss beads as eye for shimp of crayfish… they lite in dark…
    16)Thick plastic bag cut to strip are ideal for larva, shrimp or nymph..
    17)Pantyhose… no need to tell… you all know lah…
    18)Your wife red colour hairbend.. try tie it as a Cacing…blood worm…
    19)You may wanna try use mono line as legs… sand it so it will take marker…
    20)Your old broom also good for tail and antennea..and legs

Cheers… happy shopping…

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Use your own imagination… there are thousands of material in the market can use in fly tying… just how you apply it…

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I’ve read, heard or saw somewhere that someone using a lint from cloth drying machine as a nymph dubbing. So I ask my friend who own a dry cleaning business to collect some lint for me from his machine. Few days later he came back to me with a few bags of lints of many different persuasion, colours and fineness. Bingo!, I had enough dubbing to last for a life time and it’s free too. So the story goes, I tied few nymphs and went fishing. What a disappointment, some stay afloat even after wetting it, some disintegrated straight away as soon as it drag by the stream. What a dissaster!
Well, I still have few bags of lints, I don’t know what I’m going to use it for?

On the serious side, here we have many different type of kangaroo, wallaby and possum fur.

Bintoro, FFF CCI

http://www.fedflyfishers.org/

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when i used to live in vancouver 20 years ago polar bear hair was still available. polar bear hair is good because it has a natural sheen… imagine using bucktail without the need to add additional flashabou.

a friend of mine ran out of polar bear hair and in his desperation to find a substitute, turned to his girlfriend who was a natural blond in a moment of ingenuity. He cut a lock of hair from an unmentionable part of her anatomy for the correct curl and texture…and tied a couple of flies with it… needless to say, it caught fish… the inherent pheremones and scent probably helped, haha!

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quote:
Originally posted by Steelhead
when i used to live in vancouver 20 years ago polar bear hair was still available. polar bear hair is good because it has a natural sheen... imagine using bucktail without the need to add additional flashabou.

a friend of mine ran out of polar bear hair and in his desperation to find a substitute, turned to his girlfriend who was a natural blond in a moment of ingenuity. He cut a lock of hair from an unmentionable part of her anatomy for the correct curl and texture…and tied a couple of flies with it… needless to say, it caught fish… the inherent pheremones and scent probably helped, haha!

Hope he didnt keep some to feed his fetish :stuck_out_tongue:

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quote:
Originally posted by Steelhead
when i used to live in vancouver 20 years ago polar bear hair was still available. polar bear hair is good because it has a natural sheen... imagine using bucktail without the need to add additional flashabou.

a friend of mine ran out of polar bear hair and in his desperation to find a substitute, turned to his girlfriend who was a natural blond in a moment of ingenuity. He cut a lock of hair from an unmentionable part of her anatomy for the correct curl and texture…and tied a couple of flies with it… needless to say, it caught fish… the inherent pheremones and scent probably helped, haha!

and the name of the fly? Wait. I know CCB fly.

Delongsim


Gamefish & Aquatic Rehabilitation Society

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What is CCB fly…? CCB stand for what…? any photo…?

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I think the CCB Flies are a variant of the KNNCCB Flies

Lookie here :
http://www.fishingkaki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=142953&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

And it is tied using the fur of a kitten belonging to Delongsim’s mother.

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Dron, it probably means Canned Corned Beef or something… being a silly north of the border hillbilly, figuring out acronymns gives me a headache…

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Sabut..coconut husk, use your imagination.


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