I've always done the forceps thing but this weekend I was looking at an old Western Fly Tyer magazine and they suggested setting the flies on a screen over a pan of boiling water. Sounds like an easier way to go.
Tim At 12:54 PM 5/12/02 -0500, you wrote: >The reason teakettle steaming works is that you are doing one fly at a >time, holding it by the hook, and the feathers are free to go back to their >'preferred" orientation.
