Ace pink shellback material

[Paul G]

Forum member "Soggy welly" has been using the plastic cellophane from quality street chocolates to good effect for his czech nymph shellbacks this year.
I've stolen one of his colour combos - but found what I think may be an even nicer shellback material. It is the pink plastic tape that a certain brand of toilet roll has attached as a "handle" to their multipacks:


The tape looks like this and is really supple and slightly stretchy, with a nice thickness (not too thick).



Here is Soggy's pattern that he uses the pink wrappers to make (my version here has a thicker wire rib than the original and, obviously, the different shellback material). It's been a good pattern this winter for Soggy...



Since our Soggy is legendary with his thrifty ways - especially when it comes to flytying materials - I thought that I could save him the bother of buying the chocolates and perhaps send him to have a root around in the neighbourhood recycling bins instead

[christy27]

Quality Street or bog roll, now which one shall I try

Chris

[emerger1981]

that hooks had it!

[North Country Angler]

Originally Posted by emerger1981

that hooks had it!

Yeah don't let Midlander see that, he'll have palpitations!

[soggy welly]

Originally Posted by Paul G

Forum member "Soggy welly" has been using the plastic cellophane from quality street chocolates to good effect for his czech nymph shellbacks this year.
I've stolen one of his colour combos - but found what I think may be an even nicer shellback material. It is the pink plastic tape that a certain brand of toilet roll has attached as a "handle" to their multipacks:


The tape looks like this and is really supple and slightly stretchy, with a nice thickness (not too thick).



Here is Soggy's pattern that he uses the pink wrappers to make (my version here has a thicker wire rib than the original and, obviously, the different shellback material). It's been a good pattern this winter for Soggy...



Since our Soggy is legendary with his thrifty ways - especially when it comes to flytying materials - I thought that I could save him the bother of buying the chocolates and perhaps send him to have a root around in the neighbourhood recycling bins instead

You're right PG - Charmin is a bit rich for my taste. Shame the scratchy stuff my misus buys has no packaging worth using. If you are throwing that dodgy looking hook, think of me..... For the record, i tend to go for a cream rabbit fur body with a red hotspot, tightly wound with fine copper wire, shellback of red quality street wrapper (it shows as pink over the cream fur) and finally over ribbed with 6lb mono. It has proved itself this winter, and I notably caught in a pool where a chap had just been trotting pink moggots and caught nowt.

What I like about the quality street wrappers, not only being free, is that there is a big range of useable colours. 2 or 3 different yellows, orange, red, green, pink - even purple and blue if you want to get really experimental. Combine these with a body colour of your choice and with the translucency of the wrappers, you can get some really interesting effects. Olive fur with yellow back and grey fur with green back have also caught, but the cream fur and red back combo has been most effective this winter. I have found that keeping tight ribbing and a slender body is important though, not easy if going for a heavily leaded version, so go easy on the body material.

[Paul G]

Originally Posted by North Country Angler

Yeah don't let Midlander see that, he'll have palpitations!

Hee hee - yeah, bumped a few stones when fished with last....

Couple of strokes with the wet and dry paper pad required...