:=)) That's feeshun. The Golden Stone above has been perhaps my single best all around fly.
Someone asked me for a material list.
rubber legs
a body snipped from a bass tube
flat not-woven nylon thread that spreads out flat as you wind it
bead
hopper hook
fabric cement
ca glue
skewer a body blank (snipped from bass tube) onto a horizontal extra-thin beading needle. A size #10 beading needle works well. Dimple the body loosely with flat nylon thread. Whip finish loosely at roughly the rear end of the thorax area. Slide it off the needle. Put a bead on a down eye hopper hook. Wrap shank. Add some bright gold tinsely fuzz to the shank. Now loosely (loosely) lash on the body with a spot or two of CA glue at two wrap points, fore and aft.
Now sew in some rubberlegs with the following rubberleg needle and rubberleg stitch. Wet the body with fabric cement to keep the loose flat nylon wraps in place. Put it on waxed paper until the fabric cement is tack free.
World famous rubber leg needle (you have to make one)
Internationally renowned rubberleg stitchTo make a rubberleg needle put one needle vertically in the vise with the point up. Heat the eye of another needle with a cigarette lighter. Push it down onto the vertical needle with needle nose pliers holding the needle (or hold the hot needle with your fingers and cuss) while pushing the red hot eye onto the needle with the empty barrel of a thread bobbin.
Now you have a rubberleg needle. You can use it to sew rubber legs into closed cell foam hoppers, open cell foam nymphs and bass tube nymphs, also using the equally world famous rubberleg stitch. So far known only to me?