[VFB] Rope-dub flies

[DonO]

Del, my man, you know I love you. BUT...   Send me a set of flies roped with dubbing, not yarn of any kind.  I really want you to learn how to rope-dub.  It's really easy when you get the hang of it.  Don't get discouraged.  Your Tellico is a great fly, but the peacock hides the segment work, which is yarn spun around a thread.  Those flies could be roped without the thread at all.   Noodled yarn has been around for ages, and is not the rope-dub technique.  I want you to comb your cat and make a set of hard-segmented hare's ears for me from what you get off the brush.  The Adams also looked like gray floss spun around a gray thread.  Good segmentation, but not the rope-dub.   I received Joyce's Norvise flies and I'm having a hard time seeing segmentation.  Good shape and taper, and an excellent tie- but no clearly defined segments.   Jackie Reid's caddis pupae are dead on.  Killer segments, perfect taper, and a dubbing that really shows off the segments.  I will dismantle one of hers, too, to make sure she didn't spin yarn.  If she roped true dubbing, she's the front-runner right now.   Get with me in chat or on a land line one night and I'll walk you through it.  Work on a fly until your happy with it and send me just the best one.  I'll critique it for you, and then you can finish the set.  This is why I have the date set as May 1.  Time for lots of tries.   Friends, DonO