Comments on: My binges at the Yarn aisle are still intact, just less successful

By: KBarton10

KBarton10 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:48:06 +0000

I’d never seen it before, it looks really good – I’ll dig and see what I come up with.

By: johntrout52

johntrout52 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:24:35 +0000

The market name for the chenille I mention is new age chenille. You can find it in most of the catalogs of West Coast providers. It looks to be a variegated chenille with tinsel, not pearl, included in the fibers. The tinsel is often multi-colored.

By: craig

craig — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:08:36 +0000

this year i used collars tied with large dyed grizzly hackles to get the colors i wanted.

when the flies were wet the sparsely tied feathers laid back over the main body..ie. brown or orange over a green yarn gave a pretty decent olive…with a “hot spot” at the tail.

we’ll have to see if it works again next season or was just an abberation.

By: KBarton10

KBarton10 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:03:59 +0000

John – do you have any information to go on? Brand, or the name used on the fly shop packaging?

I encounter a lot of oddities, but the above description could describe everything from Cactus chenille to Fritz.

Is it mostly metallic – or is the metallic component in the minority?

By: johntrout52

johntrout52 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:57:34 +0000

Speaking of yarn, while traipsing down the aisles have you run into new age chenille? It’s the chenille with multi colored metalic highlights that hit the shops a number of years ago. I keep looking for something like it in the world’s e-bazaar but can’t find anything like it.