There is no one technique that you need to master.... to be honest in my experience you will need to master them as you feel you have the last one mastered. I know looking back on my tying I could never get a nice tapered body, then I couldn't get the propper proportions, then I couldn't stop crowding the eye. Over time as your tying eveolves so to will the things that you want and or need to master.

On a side note spinning deer hair was one of my worst ones I would try it and then abandon it for a while and come back, then abandon it again, finally about 3 years ago I got a good handle on it and now I spin hair like it's going out of style but by no means have I mastered it although I do tie some very nice deer hair flies from time to time.


Steve