Allan,

Interesting idea. Reasons I do it the way I do:

1. tying in rib and PT at the same time saves time and I'm always looking for ways to do that; there's only one wrap between securing the wire and then the PT fibers (I usually tie them both in at the same time but separated the sequence into 2 steps for visual clarity)

2. as I wrap the PT back to front, the fibers get a bit thicker (since they were tied in by the tips), creating a slightly tapered body (that the fish probably don't care about).




If I were to tie the PT in at the front of the abdomen/back of thorax and wind it back, then capture with the wire, I wouldn't get that taper and I'd also be left with a bit of a ragged butt end of PT fibers. The wire's doing double duty here, securing shuck and re-enforcing the PT (I could have twisted the pheasant around the tying thread and wrapped that forward, but for some reason, it kept breaking - old pheasant?).

Regards,
Scott