Folks: For one of my small fly flies I'm tying a midge and it has a peacock
herl (or is it hurl???)thorax I guess it is. And it has a tiny gold bead head.
Anyway, I'm like to get a drop of head cement ion the thread between the herl
and the bead cause I have had bad luck with the herl coming untied in the past.
But even with the little "needle" that comes with a bottle of head cement, the
herl just "wicks" it right up and into the herl, thus making the herl hard as a
rock as well. I don't want that. I wanted the herl to remain dry and bushy..
Cause the thread body I am putting Hanson hard as nails on, but I didn't want
the entire fly hard as a brick.I even tried just wetting the thread with glue
before whip finishing it, and that glue still got all over the herl..Any
ideas??? Thanks, Chuck
