The Beaver And Starling Flymph

 The BEAVER And STARLING FLYMPH

On a Mustad 94842 size #14

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           Found a very nice patch of beaver skin that I bought for more than 10 years ago but never used. It has a lovely shine to it. It's kind of glossy like as shown in the picture above of the finished Flymph. Perhaps more than what the picture below of the actual skin patch shows. Finding this I went on to make some bodies for flymphs.

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          The body was made with a Dick Clarke spinning block. The fur had different qualities from the root to the tip. The dubbing loop at the top has fur taken near the skin side of the patch. The one in the middle is taken from the tips of the fur and I think you can see the difference, even if the quality of the photo leaves much to offer.

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          The Flymph body is made of fur from the tip end, as the loop shown in the middle of the photo above. It has a lovely light tan color (the last two pictures are darker than in the reality) that is kind of shiny. I think this Flymph will be very effective when the lighter caddis emerges. Anyway now you might ask: What about the "starling" in the name of the Flymph? Well, the undercovert feathers on the wing closest to the body of the starling have a creamy color so that's the hackle feather on the Flymph. Furthermore they are very soft. Just blowing at the hackle you might almost make knots on the fibres. Can't wait to try it out!