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Here is a simple but very realistic fly that I often use as a dropper fly that often the gills can't pass up.  It is made with latex strips cut from a glove, wrapped up the hook shank with over lapping wraps to give it a nice segmented body.  They can be colored with markers to bring out the segmentation more or to match a certain larva.  Thinking about trying some spoons and using this to replace the spoon hook.

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I tried a couple out of foam tried to make waxies. Made 3 out of 2mm foam they were to fat these 2 are made of 1mm foam and I'll need to add some lead so I know they will sink.

now that's what i have been looking for. how hard would that be to tie on a 1/64 or 1/80 jig. nice job on tying those to .

I went and purchased some vinyl gloves this evening to tie up some of the wax worm imitations to have something to do.  I cut the finger portion off one glove and cut the hand portion to make one rectangular piece of vinyl.  I have a small paper cutter and used it to cut some strips out of the glove.  It wasn't too hard but I think a straight edge and circular cutter would work easier and be more precise. 

I tied one and used white to rib the fly but you can't see the segmentation as well as I liked so I colored the thread with a sand color prismacolor pen.  The three are tied on a Daiichi curved hook 1120 size 10.  The small one which would make a good maggot imitation was tied on a Kamasan B160 size 12. 

I put a couple of brown dots on the bottom of the larger ones to imitate legs with a brown sharpie.

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Leave a length of tying thread at the hook end that you can use to wrap up the body after you have tied in and wrapped the latex to the hook eye.   I tied one with white thread as a rib and it didn't show up enough for me so I colored the thread with a tan marker to make the rib more noticeable.  Don't know if the fish care about the ribbing but I like it better.

Mike, the glove I used was a dishwashing glove.  You can see the thickness in the strip in the bottom of the picture.  You'll need this thickness to get the segmented look as you wrap up the hook. 

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