Mark: I strip half the feather on ALL (well, almost all) of my flies.. It's a habit I got into when I first started tying cause the tying in of both sides just made a mess for Me, so I stripped on, it was MUCH easier, so i just kept doing it...It does take a little longer hackle, but works for Me, Thanks, Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Beresford II To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Griffith's Gnat Question strip half the feather before tying it in. or trim once tied in before the palmering. Mark. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.
