Sword Back Buzzer

[albannachxcuileag]

Tango's take on the Damsel prompted me to dig into my box of stuff and unearth the peacock swords. Most of us have these and limit their usage to Alexandras and Salmon flies but if you have a complete sword there is a part on it that we ignore completely and is useful when tying miniature herl buzzers.

On the back of the 'blade', if it is not pre-stripped, you will find a few very fine herl like fibres, there are only about 10 to the average retail sword, more on collected ones. This is ideal to tie small buzzers with providing you varnish the hook shank before wrapping as it is extremely fragile.

Any buzzer method can be used, bead, wing cased, dubbed thorax, whatever and you will have a..........

 

Sword Back Buzzer - tyed on size 16 Kamasan B100s

 

 

 

Not a new 'pattern' but a pattern using a material that is largely ignored

 

Foot Note - It is not apparent in the photographs but the sun came out later this morning and the body of the buzzer started to glow an iridescent green, an added attraction to the fly.

[Flytyer]

Surprising that peacock sword isn't used more often, it is much fuller and has really great irredesence.

[ladystrange]

i actually seem to use it quite a bit. but then again, i ended up with 3 bags of the stuff and had to do something with it. but i hadnt thought of using the back part of the sword for herl.