The myth, the legend. The fly that has embarrassed self respecting Alphonse and St Francois Permit for a few seasons now. The Alphlexo Crab step-by-step as tied by Peter Coetzee.

My first attempts at this were laughable.  The “crab tube” I had bought was not the right stuff at all.  A post by MC offered clues into the material used. Techflex Flexo tube in 1/8 inch.  Unfortunately that was only a 1/4 of the battle won.

The correct chenille is also key, and MC managed to sneakily buy up all local stock of the brand required- Hareline Ultra Micro chenille.  Spirit River does the some thing.  And a huge thanks to Garth Nieuwenhuis for finding some and making this SBS possible.

Then…the tricks.  So many bloody tricks.  Singed tubing, heated single strand wire, what a bitch of a thing.

Massive thanks to MC and Murray.  Without the knowledge passed on by these gents this would have taken a lot longer to hack out.  Unless I found one to take apart 🙂

So here she is: