Acetate Chironomid

Hook: Size 14 Scud/Pupae Hook Thread: 8/0 Black Bead: Small Glass Bead Gills/Tail: White Fentex Body: Black Acetate Floss Rib: Small Silver Wire Wingcase: Pheasant Tail Thorax: Peacock Herl Solvent: Acetone
	Slide on glass bead to eyelet and then tie in a smal piece of white fentex for the tail.
	Tie in some small silver wire, which will be used to rib the fly later.
	Tie in some black Acetate floss at the bend of the hook.
	Wrap acetate floss forward to form the body.
	Wrap silver wire forward about 7 to 8 turns to form the ribbing.
	Whip finish the thread, remove fly from vise and dip entire fly into acetone for about 15 seconds. Let the fly dry for about one minute before putting back into vise. Acetate floss should have slightly dissovled and created a nice, shiny body on the fly.
	Tie in a few strands of Pheasant Tail, which will be pulled over later to create a wingcase.
	Tie in a few peacock herls and wrap forward to form the thorax.
	Pull the pheasant tail, over the thorax, to form the wingcase.
	Trim excess pheasant tail, whip finish and the fly is ready for your next Chironomid hatch!

Comments

[Bob in Portland]

Hey Don
tried another idea I had heard of - tying the ice cream cone with flashabou or antistatic bag makes a good bench fly, but after a dozen fish sometimes it breaks and the fly gets really ratty looking -even with hard as nails coating.

so I put on the bead, wrap with hook with thread, tie in the red copper, then paint the body with black t-shirt paint -let it dry (kind of production line -or two step process)
Then wrap the red wire forward and tie off - the red wire pushes into the paint -the paint gives you the thin shiny body and the wire makes little puffy segments.
I still coat the whole thing with Hard as Nails -but this fly doesn't fray

Bottom line it makes a very skinny tough and realistic simple tie -that works

[Don Freschi]

Now that sounds like a durable fly and I would imagine you could make it any color you like using the T-shirt paint. I will have to tie a few up and try them this spring. I have tied plenty of patterns with the T-shirt paint as the wing buds but never used it for the body...Thanks for the great idea!