Hareline Midge Stretch Rib

Ultra-thin, ultra-stretchy, and ultra-durable, Hareline’s Midge Flash is just what you need when tying bodies on midges and chironomids. With a stretchy construction, you can dial in the taper and segmentation on your flies just how you like, and even after it stretches, it flexes back to its original diameter, further increasing the versatility of this material. Hareline makes this material in a wide range of semi-translucent colors (the color “clear” is completely translucent), and whether you’re tying complete bodies on your bloodworm patterns or ribbing chironomid bodies, creating the perfect appearance is easy.

Uses

Midge Stretch Rib is an excellent material when tying midges, chironomids, and small nymph patterns. This material can be used to craft entire bodies or rib flies that have a thread or dubbing body, and due to its excellent elasticity, you can stretch it to make it even thinner when tying the tiny stuff. 

Comparisons 

UTC’s Vinyl D-Rib, particularly in the size “Midge,” is a solid alternative to Hareline’s Midge Stretch Rib. D-Rib is a synthetic tubing that’s semi-translucent and shaped like a “D,” which allows it to lay flatly on the hook’s shank. However, there is one main difference between these two materials and that’s that D-Rib is a lot less stretchy than Hareline’s Midge Stretch Rib, so you can’t stretch the material to decrease its diameter like you can with Midge Stretch Rib.