White Thread Technique for Chironomids

[Irafly]

I decided that it is high time for me to become an influencer so I made my first YouTube video. You can all say that you knew me when

 

[Brian in OR.]

Nicely done… too bad you couldn’t use a light solid background color (light blue) behind the vise to see the tie better. Maybe on the next one..

 

[Irafly]

Nicely done… too bad you couldn’t use a light solid background color (light blue) behind the vise to see the tie better. Maybe on the next one..

Noted.

 

[NCL]

Very nice. Thank you for sharing that technique

 

[Draketake]

@Irafly,

Thank you.

 

[Wade Rivers]

Well I learned some new things. Appreciate it.

May I get geeky on your gunmetal flashabou...Is that "6916"? My seems a little more dark bronze than yours

 

[Buzzy]

May I get geeky on your gunmetal flashabou...Is that "6916"? My seems a little more dark bronze than yours

Cracked me up - I remember reading somewhere about comparing the dye lots of Flashabou's "gunmetal" offerings and how one was so much better than the other (mine is FLA6916 which probably isn't the one that won the competition ). I think all of us are a bit geeky (my daughter tells me I'm a nerd).

@Irafly - my fishing buddy Keith uses your technique and it has been very rewarding at times. TXS!

 

[Eastside]

Very nice. Thank you!

 

[_WW_]

Does gunmetal = ASB?

 

[tkww]

Does gunmetal = ASB?

That's the idea. A lot of ASB material has a slight transparency, but not sure that it's enough to really come into play.

 

[Irafly]

Well I learned some new things. Appreciate it.

May I get geeky on your gunmetal flashabou...Is that "6916"? My seems a little more dark bronze than yours

I bought a pack a long time ago, my dog found it, messed it up quite a bit, and now the remnants sit it a ziplock bag. So I have no idea!

Does gunmetal = ASB?

Kind of, it basically does the same thing, but as tkww mentioned ASB is slightly transparent and this stuff isn’t.

 

[Dave Boyle]

I’ve been a convert to this since Ira first brought it up on the old site. I use buzzer wrap from Togens which is transparent/translucent (?), ASB is fine but it is slightly thicker and you have to cut it but really each to their own, like the rib# it’s all a bit subjective but who really knows. I aim for 7 but don’t care if I’m out. I got this holoshimmer from Joanne’s, can’t recall the price but not $5 for 30m like Veevus.

Dave

 

[Northern]

@Irafly showed a similar technique years ago, coloring the white thread for a tail tag, and I've used it since then for the red throat on thunder creek minnows - so much easier than adding another material!

 

[Wade Rivers]

@Irafly showed a similar technique years ago, coloring the white thread for a tail tag, and I've used it since then for the red throat on thunder creek minnows - so much easier than adding another material!

Thunder Creek is an under-rated classic. I buddy of mine, Michael T, tied me some and I had fun at Diamond Lake stripping streamers.

 

[Billy]

influencers make a lot more if they show some skin Ira

 

[Irafly]

influencers make a lot more if they show some skin Ira

@Brian in Oregon did say I needed a lighter background, I’ll just take off my shirt and flaunt my Sun shy chest, that should kill both birds.

 

[_WW_]

@Brian in Oregon did say I needed a lighter background, I’ll just take off my shirt and flaunt my Sun shy chest, that should kill both birds.

Are you gonna shave it?

 

[Dave Boyle]

influencers make a lot more if they show some skin Ira

And tats too, get the bobber arm out there....

Dave

 

[Billy]

sneak peak at the start of @Irafly micro leech tutorial next week

 

[Tombraider]

Pot holes cronies