RHenn,

I use two different methods. I will either use the tip of the bodkin, very lightly dipped in the head cement. That way you can cover all the thread with a thin layer. Or, far more often now, I simply apply a bit of cement on a very short strip of the thread before I finish the head and the cement simply goes on more internal in the head tan external. Then again, I have been using a whip finish more and more and don't often use head cement on many of my flies.

Do what you want to. You are the one tying the fly.

Larry ---sagefisher---