Tied up a damsel with realistic wings just thought I’ld share it.
now that is awesome looking.. :-)…
MacFly
Nice work tailgrabber. What hook did you use?
Nice!
What did you use for the wings?
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.
What an awesome idea and as usual, great work TG.
That looks great.
Have you tried casting it yet?
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.
That’s an awesome looking fly tailgrabber
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.
Very NICE!!! WOW
awesome.. as for the angle I think there was a recent post on that on this forum.. but Im not sure who posted..
MacFly 
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
both look awesome to me..
MacFly
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
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.
Likewise I have had difficulty getting the body taper proportionately right.