No, I didn’t attempt to photograph this Midge Emerger setting atop a kernel of corn. But, for the uninitiated to fly tying, hook/pattern size it is helpful to imagine that kernel of unpopped corn and imagine the pattern in the picture as roughly the same size…or a little longer and fatter than a piece of cooked rice. The curved, light wired, pupa hook affords a slightly wider hook gape to hopefully facilitate the hook up with such small flies. Annoying to tie, necessary to have.
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What is the tail material?
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Stunning macro! This pattern would fit right in my fly box, will tie some up in the next few weeks…
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Do you know what the materials are?
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Best wishes!!!
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Well it was a small fibered wrapping material to make bodies called estatz…haven’t seen it of late, at least the small diameter type…There is a micro material called Straggle String by Semperfli that is similar. Really a few feather fibers would do as well.
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