Option 2. Without the wire. If they lasted forever there would be no need to tie them again.
Option 2. Without the wire. If they lasted forever there would be no need to tie them again.
Option 1. Although I have been known to use option 2 and skip the wire altogether.
Option 1. That's how I tied buggers for years.
Now I no longer use chenille. I Create dubbing brushes using angora goat or similar hair or fur combined with saddle hackle.
Allan,
Option 1 with the following differences:
I usually never use wire.
I always tie the hackle by the stem and the chenille at the eye of the hook, run the thread back to the tail tie-in point and then wind the chenille to the tail tie-in point and do a couple wraps of thread to trap it there and then palmer the hackle back to the tail tie-in point and tie it in with the thread and then run the thread through the body to the front and whipfinish. I prefer to use the tying thread instead of wire so I usually never use wire.
Warren
Fly fishing and fly tying are two things that I do, and when I am doing them, they are the only 2 things I think about. They clear my mind.
I usually go with option 1.
- Jeff
Am fear a chailleas a chanain caillidh e a shaoghal. -
He who loses his language loses his world.
Option 2, but usually without the wire.
<Listening to Goon Show re-runs while surfing the web at lunch is quite interesting.>
Ed
Hi Guys,
Thanks for the many responses. In the original question, where I wrote "wire", I meant to put a slash(/) "thread", meaning one or the other. So if you wrote, as Warren P. did, "Option 1 with the following differences: I usually never use wire" it would have been the same.
Just remembered that some tyers, like Walt Dette, counter-wrapped white thread over peacock herl on Quill Gordons and some used ultrafine copper wire. Both materials served the same purpose. B Both materials served the same purpose.
Anyway, thanks for responses.
Allan
option #1, I've been shown other ways, but I like the durability of the wire wrapped the opposite way of the hackle.
Thomas (TomS) Snyder ( also on Facebook)
option #2 for me, like to have hackle tied down both ends
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