Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose (not enough accents on this keyboard to spell that correctly!)
Cotton fibers are magic under water, hence the HONEY BUG fly of yore, made with cotton chenille. That product is all but extinct, though this fellow used to sell it. http://www.bigmeadowsflyshop.com/Honey_Bug_Page.html
Cotton mops and rugs (the kind with TENTACLES--thanks, Kevin!) are our modern source of colored cotton fibers.
Bigger, fatter, better, right?
On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 1:15:46 PM UTC-4, Dalton Terrell wrote:
-- Cotton fibers are magic under water, hence the HONEY BUG fly of yore, made with cotton chenille. That product is all but extinct, though this fellow used to sell it. http://www.bigmeadowsflyshop.com/Honey_Bug_Page.html
Cotton mops and rugs (the kind with TENTACLES--thanks, Kevin!) are our modern source of colored cotton fibers.
Bigger, fatter, better, right?
On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 1:15:46 PM UTC-4, Dalton Terrell wrote:
Interesting article about the mop fly in today's Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/fly-fishing-renegades-are- cleaning-upwith-kitchen-mops- 1476450649
Color me ignorant, but I hadn't heard about this replacement of the squirmy wormy.
Dalton
http://www.tpfr.org
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