question ?

[trout wizzard]

hi all had a bit of difficulty seeing my dry flies in the fadding light lately thought id try my hand at making some hi vi parachute flies , in the tackle shop they only had yellow polypropylene yarn, and pink antron body wool.
my querry is will the yellow show up well enough in the fading light and is antron wool ok to use for the post.

[Former member]

You have a PM.
Cheers
Gerry

[palindromic_bob]

I have tried yellow and found them ok to a point. Then I took to dipping the yellow post tip into orange fluro model paint before trimming to length and that worked well after a bit of teasing with a dubbing needle to unstick the fibers a little.

Also tried adding some strands of glothread into the poly and that didn't really work well as I hadn't charged the glothread before I fished it . I lost that fly in a tree and haven't tried the glo since but may do again.

Maybe dipping in glow in the dark paint would work well. Must try that! After halloween is a great time to pick up bottles of glow in the dark nail varnish, perfect for painting rod tips, floats etc for night fishing. Also handy if you want some glohead flies.

Now using some bright pink 100% artificial fiber knitting wool. Got a massive ball of it for £1 and there is enough to make thousands of flies. It is highly visable on the surface and floats well due the the way it can hold air. Also holds floatants well.

[doonicus]

Originally Posted by trout wizzard

hi all had a bit of difficulty seeing my dry flies in the fadding light lately thought id try my hand at making some hi vi parachute flies , in the tackle shop they only had yellow polypropylene yarn, and pink antron body wool.
my querry is will the yellow show up well enough in the fading light and is antron wool ok to use for the post.

Antron wool is good, it floats naturally so does help keep parachutes afloat.
I use white, and fluo. orange for most of my 'chutes, never tried fluo pink, but I bet it will do the trick as already advised. Fluo. orange does not put the trout off, seems to help at times, never tried fluo green either, but I bet it would work as well.

[Chris Reeves]

I tie Klinks for a guy who fishes the Kennet.
He insists that the flies are colour coded according to size, so a 14 has a yellow hi viz post, a 16 pink, an 18 green and the 20 orange. He says he can see all of the hi viz colours better than white.
I only use orange and white myself but at times have wished for a black post too.

Regards

[trout wizzard]

thanks very much for the advice, im going to have a sit down with the vice later and have a go , at some hi viz klinks