Re: [VFB] tieing deer hair - Tom

[TroutStreamTom]

Bob, here's how i do it.....depending on the size hook..8, 12, 14...i basically "site grab" the amount i think is needed.  I grab, cut and if there's a few wayward hairs, i trim them so one end is uniform.  This is the end that is near the eye of the hook.  Then i start tying.
Yes, i've had a few slight blunders, but unwrapping, then rewrapping usually does the trick.

I know recipes for deer, elk etc have you putting hair in a stacker for uniformity but not having one, i seem to do pretty well with the finished product.

Here's what i have in my kit.....the original "learn to tie" vise and other tools.  The original list of materials that came with it, the elk I got from Desert Eagle (still in the mailing pouch he sent!) 2 Bass PRo Shops boxes...the ones with the dividers in them and  a few items i got from the craft department at my local Hardware store.  All this fits nicely into a messenger bag that one of my girls decided not to use for school when she got her new LLBean backpack.  OH yeah...a piece of angled styrofoam from something my wife ordered, makes a great drying station (also fits near my computer monitor at work).

I'm adding things as i go and the whole thing is great for me.  With everything in the messenger bag, it fits well behind the seat of my truck and also hangs well in the office when i know i have a slow day and i can get some tied up.

Rambling a tad, yes, but a little ingenuity can go very far!!

Tom-Vermont

"I never go to rivers to kill hecatombs of trout or, actually any trout; I go to unkill parts of me that otherwise might die.."  A Few Premises-Nick Lyons