Folks: I have been tying some Griffiths Gnats..To tie in the hackle feather to
the back of the hook to start the palmering forward, I trim the barbs real
short for about 1/16th of an inch (cause it's on a #18 hook), tie that in from
front to back. Then, I take my thread back to the front of the hook, towards
the eye..When I make a sharp right turn to wrap clockwise towards the eye, a
few of the barbs stick straight back, and up at an angle, then start getting
into the normal palmered position and goes on up the hook, where I tie it off
at the hook eye.. Those few wild hairs kinda look like a tail, so it's not that
back, but my question was, how do you tie in the hackle so that you don't get
those few stray hairs??? Anybody see what I'm saying??? Thanks, Chuck
