Wooly Worm - Method

[ridgeliner]

Option 2. Without the wire. If they lasted forever there would be no need to tie them again.

[Jayatwork]

Option 1. Although I have been known to use option 2 and skip the wire altogether.

[tailingloop]

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.

[WarrenP]

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.

[JeffHamm]

I usually go with option 1.

- Jeff

[EdD]

Option 2, but usually without the wire.
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Ed

[Allan]

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

[TomS]

option #1, I've been shown other ways, but I like the durability of the wire wrapped the opposite way of the hackle.

[wet fly guy]

option #2 for me, like to have hackle tied down both ends

[Allan]

option #2 for me, like to have hackle tied down both ends

Just to note: Not sure I understand what you mean? In both options, the Hackle is tyed down at both ends. In #1, by thread at eye and either wire or thread at tail. In #2, thread at both ends.