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Damsel or dragonfly - tailgrabber - 02-19-2010 Tied up a damsel with realistic wings just thought I'ld share it. [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - macfly55 - 02-19-2010 now that is awesome looking.. :-)... MacFly [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - Dryrod - 02-19-2010 [center][font "Comic Sans MS"][#008000]Nice work tailgrabber. What hook did you use?[/#008000][/font] [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - cpierce - 02-19-2010 Nice! What did you use for the wings? [signature] Re: [cpierce] Damsel or dragonfly - tailgrabber - 02-19-2010 The hook is a TMC 101 size 10 straight eye 1x fine wide gape. The wings are made of tape, thread and clingwrap I colored with markers. I found a vid on youtube for making the wings. They used hackle where I used thread. I couldn't get the hackle to lay nice. [url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNDbEc8BV9M&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNDbEc8BV9M&feature=related[/url] [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - flygoddess - 02-20-2010 What an awesome idea and as usual, great work TG. [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - Jim_T - 02-25-2010 That looks great. Have you tried casting it yet? [signature] Re: [Jim_T] Damsel or dragonfly - tailgrabber - 02-27-2010 Haven't tried to cast it yet. but have cast some I made with featured wings. That one cast fine. I will post something once I get a chance to throw it. [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - DSbass - 03-05-2010 That's an awesome looking fly tailgrabber [signature] Re: [DSbass] Damsel or dragonfly - tailgrabber - 03-06-2010 Thanks. Here is the latest fly I've been working on. A friend showed me a pic from a company in england that makes them. I can't seem to get the tapper right on the body though. [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - flygoddess - 03-06-2010 Very NICE!!!! WOW [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - macfly55 - 03-06-2010 awesome.. as for the angle I think there was a recent post on that on this forum.. but Im not sure who posted.. MacFly [cool] [signature] Re: [macfly55] Damsel or dragonfly - tailgrabber - 03-06-2010 I'll have to look around for the post. I made a few with an extended body made of dubbing which looked nice and tappered. But this fly is claimed to float all day because of the foam body. Here is a pic of the dubbed body [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - macfly55 - 03-06-2010 both look awesome to me.. MacFly [cool] [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - flygoddess - 03-06-2010 tailgrasbber, you are awesome! Just remember, the tighter you wrap foam, the less buoyant it becomes. When making a fly that small, I am betting the dubbing is going to float better. Now if there was a way to make that taper from a cylinder piece of foam...now that would float. Then you have to be sure it floats upright. LOVE THEN WINGS [signature] Re: [flygoddess] Damsel or dragonfly - tailgrabber - 03-06-2010 I haven't put it in the water yet. I'm a little sceptical on the foam fly myself. The first flies I ever tied were made out of foam. They all sunk faster then any soaking wet dry fly. This one is only tied to give it a ribbed look. I did see some bugs on the water yesterday so it won't be long now. [signature] Re: [tailgrabber] Damsel or dragonfly - Dryrod - 03-07-2010 [center][font "Comic Sans MS"][#008000]Likewise I have had difficulty getting the body taper proportionately right.[/#008000][/font] [center] [signature]