I read a fly-tying tip that was saying you could save time by not wrapping the whole hook shank with tying thread and just starting the thread at the back of the fly, Taking a few wraps and start tying in your tail...
Turns out that tip is crap because the thread base is no longer there, there is nothing to protect against material slippage!

SO, I tied up about a dozen or two woolly buggers with this (time saving) tip,,,only to find that the stupid things slipped after one fish...what a waste of time!

Why hadn't I figured that they would slip against a bare hook....

well heres a picture of the slippage masterpiece:

anyone else have any tips that didn't help them that they want to share? (help others from making the mistake...)