Flex Floss

[MD_Gene]

Dave McPhail uses "flex floss" in tying his brite buzzer. I found the material on line at a store in Chicago. Anyone know if Bass Pro carries such stuff? Anyone know of good "conventional" material I can substitute?

Thanks in advance.

 

[defranksflies]

You can substitute Uni Stretch. It has a little sheen, but not quite as glossy as any floss, but you are going to coat the body with a lacquer or uv resin/epoxy.

 

[whheff]

defranksflies wrote:
You can substitute Uni Stretch. It has a little sheen, but not quite as glossy as any floss, but you are going to coat the body with a lacquer or uv resin/epoxy.

+1
My thought too.

 

[MD_Gene]

Thanks. I routed through my material drawers and found some of the floss I am asking about. Too much stuff and not a good memory of all stuff I have. Anyway, I will use what I have and look for some other materials to get an affect that I think will be as or more effective.

 

[FrequentTyer]

Unistretch is a very different material, but I agree the coating will make any substitute work on this pattern. Spanflex is the closest thing to Flexi floss, and you can get it at TCO.
http://www.tcoflyfishing.com/TCO_Fly_Fishing_L5_Product.cfm?productid=39190
Flytyers dungeon sells something called bug body that seems to be the same material.
Mike.

 

[beadhead2]

Flexi floss
http://beaverkillangler.com/fly_tying/synthetics/flexi_floss_floss_flex.aspx

 

[nfrechet]

substitutes

http://flytyingnewandold.blogspot.com/2011/12/flex-vs-flex.html