I’ve been tying some eggs today, using egg yarn. I was having some trouble controlling the material to get a good tie.
Experimenting, I hitched on hackle pliers, trimmed the yarn at the right edge of the pliers, cut off about an inch of yarn to the left, brought the yarn down over the hook and got a perfect wrap. The weight and clamping action of the hackle pliers made it real easy to get perfect wraps around the middle of the yarn prior to removing the hackle pliers and trimming the egg.
Somebody else has undoubtedly discovered this before me, but I was proud to discover it on my own.
Oldfrat
Try useing an old ball point pen half, just thread the egg yarn through the opening for the pen. It work well for controling the yarn when tye egg flys, you can make large eggs or small eggs work realy well.
Ghost
I’ve tried the pen trick, it just doesn’t work well for me. I don’t get the control with the pen that I do with my own fat fingers. I much prefer to use McFly Foam for all my eggs, and tie them in the Mustad fashion. Works great for me.