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BossBob’s Furry-Foam Softshell Crayfish – with music


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Little things like this, are called “flies.” You take bits and pieces of fur, feather, hair and/or synthetic materials, and you tie them onto a hook.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyWX0InFdNY – a little fly tying music, courtesy of Sax man, Jim Snidero with Strings. “Theme for Ernie.” I think you’ll like this one.

Originally, they were supposed to do two things, to accomplish one thing: 1.) imitate a fish, a bug or something else that lives in the water or, 2.) simply look attractive and edible in general, in order to, 1.) catch a fish.

Fish aren’t really very smart at all (although compared to some of the humans who fish for them….). They do have instincts, however, which sorta’, kinda’ helps. But, since they’ve no hands the only way to find out if something is edible is to put it in their mouths. If it doesn’t feel right, spit it out. Unless, of course, there’s a quick-handed person at the end of a long string attached to the fly waiting for just such a taste-testing.

Then it’s “bye, bye fishy world; hello skillet.”

As I said, they’re fish. If I don’t eat them, something else will.

But, about the fly. Not being content to leave well enough alone, fly tyers (or sometimes spelled, “fly tiers,” although I prefer the former) find peace, serenity, comfort and a form of artistic expression in tying these things well beyond what is needed to catch a fish. I know I do.

So we come up with 1,001 variations on a theme. This is Variation #787, called BossBob’s Furry Foam Softshell Crayfish. It’s about 1.75 inches (4.445 cm) in length

Bossbob: that’s me!
Furry Foam: the brown fuzzy-wuzzy, synthetic material on top
Softshell: the molting stage of the crayfish this is supposed to imitate
Crayfish: Because that’s what it is! What are you, blind? If I put this in the water, I just know another crayfish would try to mate with it……

There’s also some bucktail hair, from the tail of a male deer; some more synthetic fuzzy stuff called “special blend” under the Furry Foam; black-dyed, melted monofilament eyes, and orange rubberlegs. I’ve said enough. The exact formula and proportions are all “wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!” If I told you, I’d have to kill you.

"And, yes," the Tyer will say with humility (faked or real)," when things as good as this fly are creepy-crawling their way across a bit of gravelly, weed-annoited, tanin-stained river bottom, they really can look kinda’ real."

Each variation on a theme of 1,001 is, of course, guaranteed as being the “gosh-darned-it, most-prettiest, best fish-catcher of them all.” Not quite a manly game of “mine’s bigger than yours,” I would agree, but more a friendly game of “mine is the fairest in the land; care to see it?” And we play this with an “I’m really serious,” absolute, straight, poker-face, mind you.

Nice fly! Now I’ll just sit back, take a sip, have a drag, pat myself on the back, groove to the music, take some pictures of it, and chill.

A new texture for me, courtesy of Boccacino: www.flickr.com/photos/boccacino/ – texture 110B used three times.

I downloaded many of his some months ago. They are really, really wonderful. But they’ve sat for too long. Until now I didn’t know what to do with them. Now I have some ideas.