Ashley, (and swappers) You are correct. 'Juice bugs' are just a style of fly that I've tied for 30 years, starting with Swannundaze.
With new materials came new applications- Vinyl, Sof-tex, Jelly-rope, etc., Now UV as the latest improvement. The goal is to make a bug that looks 'juicy', that is, it looks like you can just 'squish it' and the juice will get all over your fingers. If you have some old Swannundaze, you could use that, or clear D-rib, or clear Larva-lace, or... I've even used strips of heavy mono to make a clear shell, and surgical tubing for salt shrimp. The one goal of any effort would be to create transparency. I don't like epoxy because of the smell and weight and yellowing and the time to dry (drying wheels) and the mess and fuss with mixing, the waste, and... On the simple side, just a scud rope-dubbed with reflective or synthetic dubbing, segmented, with a good coat of UV on the top side will make a juice-bug. Let it cure and pick out some legs and you'll have a scud like a lot of them look in my box, because that's just what I did. A 30-second fly to tie and doing a group with the UV doesn't take long. A second coat of UV and the results are amazing. A bare hook wrapped with pearl strip and then jelly-roped on the top, and then soaked with vinyl and then covered on the top with UV looks really cool- pearlescent-transparent. The thinned vinyl is to penetrate all your materials and make a solid fly, allowing the materials below to come to the surface as special effect colors. Then the UV coat gives transparent depth and allows all the undercolors to do even more amazing things. But after a few of these simple ones you may get adventuresome. Using the juice-bug tutorial as a basis lends for some experimentation. Nice thing is that everything comes out cool and fishable and gives you more ideas. So everyone's entries may be a hodge-podge of experiments gone well. I have a 100 or so in my boxes and have given away that many. I went back to old boxes and took out discard flies and treated them with the UV, glitter, and markers, and got some amazing new fishing flies. You'll find that markers and glitters are easy to use and give great results. You may hit on the simplest combo that the fish just can't resist. For panfish, I would do a pink ice-dub segmented scud with opal glitter in the UV- just a tad- would be killer. Chuck's pink panfish producer was rope-dubbed pink ice-dub. Just remember, it's a fun swap intended to let tiers play with techniques, especially Jelly-rope and UV goop. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: ashley strutt To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] IOFF Juice Bug/ Nymph Swap, Sign up, 3 slots left Hi Jimi, Concerning the material list, I am sure (I will check tonight) that an previous email wasn't so strict all the materials. It was more the style of fly and the email said how people wete able to experiment. Ashley On 25 Aug 2011 15:08, "Jimi AKA Desert Eagle" <j...@hdc-nm.com> wrote: > Update as of this morning, 3 slots left. > Jimi > > Flies will be; Scuds, nymphs, shrimp or variations of these/ similar aquatic > insects. > > * indicates required material to be in the fly > # indicates an item that may be substituted if not redily available > > Materials: > *Ice-dub, > #clear Jelly-rope (on-line), > *clear head cement, > *UV Wader repair > *Pearl strips > *Mono thread > Melted mono/bead eyes (if used) > > Due date would be Thankgiving. > > 15 tiers +/- > > Flies due here by November 23rd 2011 > > Thoughts to j...@hdc-nm.com > > 1, Jimi, Swapmiester > 2, Ashley Strutt > 3, Eric Worm > 4, Jerry McKaughan > 5, Michael Bliss > 6, Don O > 7, J. Balmer > 8, Chappy > 9, Walter > 10, Peggy B > 11, Jack Lehman > 12, Gary Webb > 13, > 14, > 15, > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
