Weaving or woven flies

[ArcherFish]

Tried this weaving with copper wire, various thickness etc.

Wire is a bit more difficult.
Once you have kinked it, bent it. It is very difficult to realign the weave.
Here is one of the best models

I can hear BG's music in the background...

[ArcherFish]

Hi'
My attempt at weaving..the wWurm

[poppernel]

A nice and easy weave to use.

[smallstreams.co.za]

This may have been asked before, apologies if I missed it.

With all the effort of the weaving, what distinct advantages would such a pattern have?

[turando101]

A nice and easy weave to use.

..Thanks that is the one I have used in my hopeless attempts to tie some flies. If you use that as a body for a dragonfly nimph and you use embroidery cotton it looks great. Btw that is a macrame (sp??) knot and several others can be used very effectively in fly tying!! Some others can be found here:
http://www.olgasmacrame.com/4pageKnots.html
cheers,
KarelM

[poppernel]

This may have been asked before, apologies if I missed it.

With all the effort of the weaving, what distinct advantages would such a pattern have?

HI Mario,

I would not say that there are any real advantages, for me it is just something different. The same when using beads to build a body, no real advantage here either, but both weaves and beaded flies will catch fish.

Dave

[smallstreams.co.za]

HI Mario,

I would not say that there are any real advantages, for me it is just something different. The same when using beads to build a body, no real advantage here either, but both weaves and beaded flies will catch fish.

Dave

Thanks Dave

[poppernel]

..Thanks that is the one I have used in my hopeless attempts to tie some flies. If you use that as a body for a dragonfly nimph and you use embroidery cotton it looks great. Btw that is a macrame (sp??) knot and several others can be used very effectively in fly tying!! Some others can be found here:
http://www.olgasmacrame.com/4pageKnots.html
cheers,
KarelM

HI KarelM,

Thanks for this, will check it out. It just takes some practice to get the hang of it. Keep trying. I will carry on as soon as my vice is fixed, hate using my old one.

Dave

[Korrie]

With all the postings of flies and fly boxes, I asked my CZ friend, Jiri Pechjar, to send me a photo or 3 of what his tying looks like, when he is on the serious tying mission.
Here are a couple of photos.

[Korrie]

a couple of more photos from Jiri Pechjar