WHITE Rubber/Silicone Legs..???..your thoughts please

[BruceC2C]

I recently started to tie my first batch of Pat's Rubber Legs.

Scrolling thru various recipes , some tied with White Legs.

For the life of me, NO WAY I can get myself to even think about using White Legs... compared to a multitude of other color options ( amber, olive, copper, ginger,etc)
,...that r more representative of colors found in stream bed life.

I know I can use a Sharpie to customize the white color.
That is not an attractive option for me.

Pretty accurate to admit there r tons of quality fish caught on flies with White Rubber Legs...

With your input & experience, please to tell me what I am missing
with my Myopic view on White Rubber Legs.

 

[The Angler]

I recently started to tie my first batch of Pat's Rubber Legs.

Scrolling thru various recipes , some tied with White Legs.

For the life of me, NO WAY I can get myself to even think about using White Legs... compared to a multitude of other color options ( amber, olive, copper, ginger,etc)
,...that r more representative of colors found in stream bed life.

I know I can use a Sharpie to customize the white color.
That is not an attractive option for me.

Pretty accurate to admit there r tons of quality fish caught on flies with White Rubber Legs...

With your input & experience, please to tell me what I am missing
with my Myopic view on White Rubber Legs.

you're not missing anything. Use what color(s) you are confident in.

 

[sandflyx]

white works well

 

[nfrechet]

for me, a girdle bug is tied with white rubber legs

and a pat's rubber legs is tied with brown or maybe black rubber legs

 

[poopdeck]

I like fly tying because I get to do what I want to do and I rarely follow a pattern exactly. With that said, I do believe Pats rubber legs are historically tied with spanflex. I could be wrong about that because I also don’t care much about fly history and those who tied them. Use white, black, pink, round square, flat or whatever makes you the happiest.