Description
Palmer Chenille is pearlescent and one-sided. It can be palmered for tails and collars on streamers as well as many other uses and is a neat material to experiment with.
Palmer Chenille is a Mylar based flash product with all of its fibres on a single side. When wrapped in closely spaced wraps around the hook, it makes a dense, flashy body. When palmered forward in evenly spaced wraps, it makes for a sparse body with lots of fiber movement and flash. When used in the latter manner, it can be substituted for a saddle hackle. Try it in place of a saddle hackle on flies like the Woolly Bugger.
The medium size also makes a very nice synthetic replacement for hen saddle. A turn or two of Palmer Chenille is just the ticket for creating new renditions of your favorite wet fly patterns.
