Antron was already such an accepted material when I started tying flies – that I almost think of it as a “traditional” man-made material like floss and tinsel. I’ve never been won over by foam though – I try it from time to time, but I just can’t love it. Making a line between foam and Antron is probably splitting it pretty fine though! Or maybe I’m just a jealous Easterner – without much need for large foam flies.

Very interesting antron body–do you find it gets waterlogged? I love good floating caddis patterns (I’ve been tying mine with a foam body).

This was a great line, “…the fly fisherman looks to the cloudless clear blue sky, squinting like Clint Eastwood and looking about as ornery.” I love those old spaghetti westerns he was in!