Some years ago, I met the well-known fly tyer Jean Louis Teyssié in an event tying artificial flies.
I showed to Jean Louis some of my fly patterns and he showed me how to tie the tube bodies.
Teyssiè poured a little of colorless silicone, the same that use the artisans to seal the window panes View more...Some years ago, I met the well-known fly tyer Jean Louis Teyssié in an event tying artificial flies.
I showed to Jean Louis some of my fly patterns and he showed me how to tie the tube bodies.
Teyssiè poured a little of colorless silicone, the same that use the artisans to seal the window panes or other, on a piece of roll paper and then he dipped in silicone the needle around which created the tube body.
Until that day I had never tie a tube body because even though I consider myself an innovator, are still tied to tradition and I think that construction problems are to be solved by the technique and not with adhesives; Also, I prefer not to inhale solvents present in any type of glue.
However, out of courtesy towards Teyssiè, but also out of curiosity, I tried to tie someone.
What struck me was to note how quickly I get the bodies and to me, that I love things done with ease and speed, it pleased.
Back home, I decided to continue the experiment on the tube bodies and bought a colorless silicone tube, the one used to seal aquariums.
I removed the cap to the tube, but instead of pouring the silicon on a piece of roll paper, in the way it acts Teyssiè, I slipped in to tube the tool needle with which it constructs the tube body.
In this way the quantity of silicon exposed to air turned lower as a minor turned exhalation of the solvent that sprang from the tube, also, with that procedure, I not wasted even the slightest amount of silicon.
When the silicone tube was over, it had built a good number of tube bodies and began to think how I could use them.
As seen from the tying, I tie the imitation with the principle with which I realize my parachute, edit where the rooster hackle is wrapped under a strip of foam.
In this case, is the tube body to perform the function of the foam strip and the cock's hackle is wound between it and the hook, but the result is always the same: a montage parachute robust.
You can replace the rooster hackle with a CDC so as to obtain a fly that fall gently on the water.
This pattern fly can be tied either both on small hooks, both large, up to the construction of the May Fly spent
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List of materials
Thread: Pale Brown 8/0
Hook: grub size 12
Chest: dubbing Mix hairs hare & CDC
Wings: a CDC hackle
Steps
Step 1
I tie a tube body on hook grub.
Step 2
I tie a CDC hackle near the tube body.
Step 4
I tie the chest of fly
Step 5
I wrap the CDC hackle under the tube body, tie it and cut excess.
Step 6
I lower the tube body on the chest, tie it on the hook and cut the excess.
Step 7
I tie the head of fly
Step 9
Fly view from above.
