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]>
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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
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