With all this deer hair talking about spinning, packing and stacking,I should have Rene put my deer hair Sunfish on my fly page on his site.It is spun, stacked and packed with different color hair. Will send him a photo tomorrow. Don,I think I showed it to you when you were here. I think Rene,Mart,and Nick have also seen when they were here. Tony --- DonO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lane, > > If you allow the deer hair to be uniformly spun > around the shank of the hook > as you flare it (tightening the thread wraps), > that's spinning. > > If you do not allow the hair to spin around the > shank as you tighten and > flare, that's stacking. Over-and-under stacking is > tying two stacks > opposite each other, normally of different colors, > to get a top-side color > and a belly color. > > Packing is crushing the deer-hair stacks or spins to > the rear of the hook to > create density or designs, then re-tying in front or > that packed section, > normally with more deerhair to continue the design > forward to the eye. > > Spin/pack/trim multiples for bass-bug heads. > > Stack/pack/trim for sculpin heads and such. > > DonO > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
