Hi VFB:
I recall the fly Deb is describing but couldn't remember the name and did a web search. Couldn't find the fly, found something else (see below).
The orange in the potato chip package is used for wing buds in the buzzer (chironomid pupa) pattern.
There's another UK fly meant to imitate a Stickleback minnow that specifies the copper colored liner of a milk bottle. My memory could be totally wrong, but I remember that fly as Greenwald's Glory. Obviously lots of stuff like this in the flytying world.
But the real gem today was I stumbled across this great UK pattern site. This reminds me of a time when I spent an hour at a Newport, Wales UK flyshop looking through many bins of what looked like very exotic unknown flies. To a Brit, it would have been like seeing bins of hare's ears, adams, royal wulffs, pheasant tails, etc. but to this Yankee, the stuff looked new and unusual.
http://www.diptera.co.uk/patterns/patterns_list.htm (UK fly patterns)
For any stillwater fly fisher, and especially stillwater brown trout fly fisher, these patterns definitely merit a study. The UK stillwater folks are way more sophisticated and experienced with stillwater tactics than this side of the pond. The lag time between when something is developed in the UK to when it is introduced in the US is shrinking, but a lot of techniques and loads of products are introduced in Europe first.
Wes Wada Bend, Oregon
Deborah Duran wrote:
Some of the English flies... buzzers I think... call for a certain chip package. Iain would know.
Tony Spezio: The silver or gold candy wrappers have been used for wings on a caddis, I had several sent to me over the years. There is a pattern out there that calls for a specific candy wrapper. I think Rick Z ties one. Tony
Gramps:
for dubbing, but it has too many threads and hair and junk for my tastes.One thing about a "Flytyer" if it is available, we can find a use for it from dryer lint to discarded candy wrappers.
What would you use a candy wrapper for, seriously? i've used dryer lint
Would the candy wrapper be a shell-back, or body-material, or wings? Just
curious, is all...Tight wraps, Pete
