Flymen Fishing Company is at it again! I feel they do a terrific job every year coming out with a cool new fly tying material. Here is their latest!
Fish-Skull® Chocklett’s Body Tubing is the authentic “secret ingredient” used by Blane in his big game flies for heads, to segment the bodies, and to keep the materials flared up, allowing them to push more water and have the illusion of bulk – the hollow fly effect – while being light and castable all day.
http://flymenfishingcompany.com/
Fished w/Blaine years ago on the James River above Buchanan, Va. when he still had his Blue Ridge Outfitters Fly shop in Roanoke, Va. Joe Messinger, his son Jody., C. Boyd Pfeiffer and myself spent a weekend about 15 years ago floating the James with you. Blaine and Harry Stieves have developed a lot of great foam flies for smallmouth. See he’s now getting after the muskies with serious vigor!!! As usual he’s pushing the envelope in developing flies for this species…The tubing looks like it will more than fit the bill for the large articulating flies he’s designing. Where can you obtain this tubing? Thanks, here’s hoping all is well down Roanoke way!!
Jack Bell