Thanks for all your kind words, The b&b tube fly is tied with a foam head.
You could use deer hair but foam is a lot faster and easier.
The lighting set-up is pretty straight forward, just one sb-900 with a lastolite softbox. I photographed it on a small glass table. If you put your flash really close to your subject and use a small aperture say f26-f22 etc. the background will become black. Even in this case with the background being my wooden floor. I you have to much ambient light a black towel does the trick. Same goes for a pure white background, flash the background on full power, the color doesn’t matter at all.
Best