In a message dated 12/10/2001 6:22:22 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< >> Jamieson, how is it going? Do you have your flies tied yet for my swap? They are do to me by Friday. Now in response to your question about mylar minnows. I recently tied some of these up for the very first time. Mine float. This is what I do. Use a tmc 300 hook. Take some craft foam and cut into a rectangle approximately 3/4 wide by 1 long. Roll it up into a roll, like a burrito. Take some 3/0 thread and bind it to the hook, tight enough but not to tight that you collapse the foam. Do all this after you attach the mylar in the front of the hook. Bak the mylar back over the foam to the back of the fly. Tie off tightly at above the barb of the hook. Ti in your marabou tail. Your almost done. Using five minute epoxy mix up a batch of epoxy, mix equal parts and mix it well. Spread a light coat of epoxy all over the fly. Make sure you put some over the thread wraps binding down the marabou, this will lock it in. After they have dried, I put a coat of sally hansens hard as nails clear nail polish over the entire body. You can then paint them. I painted mine to resemble floating rapala. Went to the rapala website for the color charts. I also tie mine leaving out the foam and slipping a glass rattle in the mylar, makes a rattling noise as it is swimming. I am going to fish my floating ones on a sinking line over seedbeds. The fly will then swim at a suspended depth just like the rapala husky jerks. If you want I can send one of mine to you with your swap flies. Let me know how your swap flies are coming. John Ridderbos
