Honey bug chenille.
chenille (it comes in what I call regular, thick and thin; regular would be the stuff for a size 12). Strip off about half of the fuzz to expose the four inner cotton strands. Remove one of the four strands and then tie the remaining three, starting at the bend, as you would the thread for a standard fly. Wrap the chenille on the hook, ending near the eye, and tie it all off with a piece of floss.
them as well. When looked for a reason by submerging true honey bugs and similar flies made with synthetic chenille (of, say, the green weenie variety) I made a shocking discovery. Though the cotton chenille looks drab and ordinary when it's dry, or even when its wet but out of water, when it's submerged, it takes on a translucent quality, much like you see when you look at a squirming grub or maggot, a fresh salmon egg (not those pickled ones in the Uncle Josh's jars) or even a chunk of raw chicken meat. In other words, the stuff, either on purpose or by accident, has the look of living flesh when it's under water. By contrast, the chenille used for green weenies doesn't look nearly as good under water as it does when it's dry. |



