One requirement for easier packing of deer hair is to not start with any thread on the shank of the hook. Only tie in the thread at the bend and add some cement. With no thread on the hook shank the hair will slide easier and pack better. After spinning each bunch of hair onto the hook make one wrap forward of this bunch and pack. Repeat this for each successive bunch of hair.
Harmen > Great question, Del! > > I'm with Allan on the deer hair bugs but for a differrent reason. No matter > how hard I try I just can't get spun hair packed tightly. I've tried any > number of ways to pack the clumps together and all different diameters of > hair bunches, all to no avail. Mine usually end up looking like a little > brush with all sorts of gaps between the fibers. I'm really humbled > whenever I examine the divers, poppers and frogs in a fly shop that look > like they were carved out of balsa and expertly painted. I guess it's not > that big a deal as my creations occasionally do fool a bass into eating > them. > > Again, this was a question for the pros but suggestions are always > appreciated. > > Kevin > > > >From: Allan Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [VFB] A question for the pros. > >Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 00:06:57 -0500 > > > > > > >Subject: [VFB > > > Listers, > > > Now is the time for everyone to fess up on a little secret. What > >is > > >you deepest tying failure? > > > >I am a poor tyer of deer hair flies do to a poor sense of symmetry. After > >I make my initial trim, I usually find one side longer than the other, and > >in my efforts to make the other side shorter, it usually ends up shorter > >than the formerly short side, so I then start trimming on the formerly > >shorter side which is now longer than the short side but won't be much > >longer...............I've wound up with some size 16 deer hair flies tied > >on size 2/0 hooks! > > > > > >WHOOPS! I shouldn't have answered this anyway. It was a question for the > >pros. > > > > > >Allan > > > > > >Allan Fish > >Greenwood, IN > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! > http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp >
