jrock
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Post by jrock on Mar 18, 2007 17:37:36 GMT -4
Tying Steps:
1. Fix hook in the vise and start thread behind the eye. The thicker silk will give an undercolor to the body, the 6/0 will work if you can't find Pearsall's gossamer. Select a partridge feather with fibers twice as long as the hook gap. Strip the fuzzy fibers from the base and tie the feather in by the stem so that the fibers will sweep back when wound.
2. Clip 2-3 inches of oval tinsel and tie it in at the bend of the hook. Wax the thread with a sticky dubbing wax, and twist hare's mask budding onto it loosely, so that lots of fibers will work in the current when the fly is fished.
3. Wrap the body forward to the base of the hackle. Wind the rib forward in three to six evenly-spaced turns. Tie it off and clip the excess. Be sure that the ribbing does not mat down the loose dubbing. If it does, use your bodkin or a dentist's root canal tool to rough it up again.
4. Wind one or at most two turns of hackle. If you use two, the second should be placed tight behind the first. Capture the hackle tip with your thread, then clip or break off the excess. Work the thread through the hackle to the hook eye. Form a neat thread head, whip-finish, and clip the thread. If you're using silk, wax the last inch with beeswax before whip-finishing. ~ Dave Hughes
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