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Post by jjr on Mar 23, 2006 8:14:05 GMT -5
I know this is an old chestnut but I'm still a relative newbie.....I've tried to tie the excellent Spnflex Mk 2 buzzer ( size 14) in black but it is as dull as dishwater and gives me no confidence .........can anyone recommend a really reliable black buzzer tying as I come to the end of my pre-season tying ? I hope to try the Foldback Buzzer soon but dont have any black antron yet. A black brassie looks possible .......but can anyone come up with a real "Winner" ? Cheers lads
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Post by Charlie on Mar 23, 2006 8:30:34 GMT -5
I use a variety of simple black spanflex buzzers. They are just black flexifloss/spanflex with either a wire rib, a red flexifloss rib or a UV rib. I use holographic red tinsel for the wing buds and I pretty much always use a 10.
Whatever people say about "they are only taking green, or you can only catch on such and such pattern", I catch so many fish on this very simple fly, often when others aren't catching, that I don't worry about patterns for buzzers. I usually fish this pattern under a bung.
If I want to retrieve the flies, I tend to use a DB or a Cruncher as I feel these "do" more, although I used to catch lots on the black flexifloss moving it, before I made that leap.
Charlie
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Post by Dog on Mar 23, 2006 9:12:59 GMT -5
jjr - I am no flytier of any real capability, but can recommend that you try doing a Blakstone buzzer. Pretty straight forward and does the job. Very succesful and not too traumatic to tie.
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Post by jjr on Mar 23, 2006 9:42:14 GMT -5
Dog ....Blakestones ....is it Black thread, silver wire, pearl lurex up the spine, Peacock herl head ? Anything missing ? Does it need orange thorax / biots or whatever ?
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Post by Keniom on Mar 23, 2006 12:41:36 GMT -5
I like simple (easy to tie) patterns, so for a black buzzer I run black thread from the eye and round the bend where I catch in some orange glo-brite floss and put on about three turns as a tag. Tie in some pearl Krystal Flash then wind the black thread back to the eye, rib with the Krystal Flash and build up a thorax with the thread. I put on one coat of brushing super glue and when this has dried a couple of coats of Sally Hansen.
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Post by deanz2000 on Mar 23, 2006 13:12:19 GMT -5
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Post by troutbum on Mar 23, 2006 13:12:57 GMT -5
This is one of my favourites. Troutbum
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Post by deanz2000 on Mar 23, 2006 13:14:31 GMT -5
Oh i had forgotten Dave has used olive spanflex, but you would just use black!
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Post by Dog on Mar 24, 2006 3:32:38 GMT -5
jjr - apologies for the delay in replying. Yeah, that's the one. I just use really bright orange floss as wing buds either side of the peacock hearl thorax. It's served me well enough like.
I am sure that there are other faves out there too, but this is my first port of call when trying the buzzers. Good luck.
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Post by pint on Apr 9, 2006 13:54:18 GMT -5
My favourite for the winter / early season months is a size 10 or 12 Black Ice buzzer with a gold hotspot. Gets them down deep and fast.
For later months , I go for a Blakestone Buzzer too in Anything up to size 16 or Tiny Miracle Nymph in Size 16 or 18.
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Post by wigger01 on Apr 9, 2006 15:34:38 GMT -5
A little tip when tying buzzers that i have found works very well. Run "black" thread along shank and into bend and tye in a piece of rolled cling film, take thread back up to eye and tightly turn cling film back towards eye, tye off cling film and whip a head, tye off and coat with H A Nails, finish by painting wing buds with Holts VW orange paint and away you go. I have found this buzzer deadly on my local waters and very simple to tye. The cling film gives a nice slim segmented body to the fly.
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Post by jjr on Apr 11, 2006 4:02:21 GMT -5
Pint, whats a tiny miracle nymph ? Any materials guide or a pic ?
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Post by Dougie on Apr 11, 2006 12:49:09 GMT -5
My new favourite black buzzer! Dougie
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Post by Countryboy on Apr 11, 2006 13:11:48 GMT -5
For me the best are Jim Doyle's(Magicone) skinny buzzers. C.B
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Post by flytire on Apr 11, 2006 17:20:06 GMT -5
For the tyers using spanflex or flexifloss: Do you overcoat the fly with crazy glue, sally hansens hard as nails (a nail polish in the USA) or something else?
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