Re: Half Hitch
Here is a suggestion...
After step #3, where you tie in and form the hackle collar behind the eye, do a 2-3 whip finish and remove the thread bobbin. Then use the long thread created in step #1 and your whip finish tool and whip finish at the tail tie in point. Then restart your thread behind the eye like you would when beginning to tie a fly.
Just a suggestion on how I would do it if I was going to tie this pattern.
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.