The holographic tinsel is a Wal-Mart product called Holiday Time, is high quality, 18" long, slightly wider than regular Flashabou, is packaged on a dense 5" width card, and costs a whopping 87 cents. The quantity would last you a long, long time.
The colors I saw were red, gold, and one copper which I snapped up on sight. I did not see a clear or silver, though this store may not have had those in stock. Also, the K-Mart product may be different and offer other colors.
If you reverse the color scheme in a chromie, these flashes would work great. The chromie, a chironomid pupa pattern by Philip Rowley, specifies silver flash ribbed with red holographic flash. It would be just as easy to make the underbody the red or copper holographic and rib with silver flash. <http://www.kalflyfishers.ca/flys%20Patterns/chromie_chironomid.htm>
At the local dollar store, I found gift bows made with narrow silver holographic flash at 25 cents each, plus a big bag of pearlescent mylar shred (wide mylar flash) at 95 cents.
Wes Wada
Bend, Oregon
Joyce Westphal wrote:
The mylar flash is the clear Christmas tree holographic tinsel that you can by at K mart or Wal mart right know. It's called Christmas icicles or Christmas tinsel I think and is just clear, holographic mylar. Cost is about 1.49 at the above stores..go look in the Christmas tree decoration department.� Also keep your eyes open for holographic gold and silver..best buy right now in the same department and much cheaper than if you buy it in the fishing department. Joyce
