Detached Body Damsel

[albannachxcuileag]

Here is a little knock up of a detached body Damsel that was made with bits lying around the vice to illustrate how easy it is to replicate the real thing. If I had taken time and selected the correct materials then it would appear more realistic but this serves to illustrate the idea quite well.

 

 

The body was a CDC plume with the beads slipped into place and a few drops of varnish to lock them up, I let this dry overnight so it was not quite five minutes! You can use any colour of bead to replicate the abdomen of the species found at your fishery.

The hook is a Kamasan B175 size 10, a heavy wire hook.

The thorax and head are just dark olive spectrablend and the wings are 4 grizzle hackles, I did not bother to trim these as it is not going to be fished. Eyes are made using the headlamp technique I demonstrated elsewhere in the forum.

 

In the pipeline is a spun deer hair Damsel but this is awaiting the kind offer of Laurie Finney who is going to dye some materials in Picric for me, Nice one, Laurie!

 

All in all it looks a reasonable facsimile and with a bit more work could be quite a good fly for the adult Damsel season.

[kungfool]

Simply magnificent! I love this fly. Thanks for sharing.

[ladystrange]

that's an interesting way of doing it. so you just slipped the beads over the cdc and glued them in place?

 

and here i was screwing around with wires and such. i like the look of this.

[albannachxcuileag]

that's an interesting way of doing it. so you just slipped the beads over the cdc and glued them in place?

 

and here i was screwing around with wires and such. i like the look of this.

 

Sometimes you just have to think out of the box, I get all sorts of ribbing about my ideas but if they have never been seen before who is to say that they won't work?

We, nowadays, are not limited by available materials as were our counterparts in days of yore when all they had were natural products, we have an endless, ever expanding choice of material so and why should we limit our ideas to those that have ruled in the past?

 

Throw away the rule book and get thinking out of the box!

[maxwell]

sick fly dude..ill halfto post my dragonfly tonight...