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Post by patgreen on Mar 7, 2011 23:49:36 GMT -5
anybody have any? i'm just practicing, really.
i know that you have to use body hair and that it's harder with 8/0 than other thicker types of thread and you want to use quite a large amount, like the diameter of a pencil.
any help would be appreciated.
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Post by NickConwall on Mar 8, 2011 1:31:53 GMT -5
Strong tying thread is a good thing but not a necessity, especially on smaller flies....
My advice & what worked for me was I got a bunch of deer hair (I hunt so it's in no short supply) and just practice-practice-practice: start big to get the principles down, (how to stack it right, how to lock the hair's in so they don't just keep spinning, trimming them with a scissor and razor, etc...) and then learn to tie a few patterns w/ step-by-steps. You-tube has a crap load of videos that helped me on all sorts of hair use from making multi-colored/stacked bass poppers to tying in wings for tiny caddis or black fly dry fly imitations using only a few hairs.
The key words are patience & practice. Good luck amigo!
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Post by Nick Pionessa on Mar 8, 2011 7:59:22 GMT -5
you will need heavier thread if you want to do bass bugs. cut a section the size of a your finger from the hide. comb the short fluff out of the butt end. if you want a collar of tips like a muddler you will need to stack the tips even. if not trim the tips off. lay the deer parallel to the hook and take two loose turns of thread around it and the hook shank. now tighten the thread on the third turn and use the torque to spin the deer around the shank. the hair will fold into a "V" where both sides will come together in the middle as the thread tightens. the correct idea would be to apply enough pressure to have the thread meet the hook shank at the same time the deer completes it's circumnavigation. once the deer is around the hook and the thread is tight take one more turn around with the thread tightly. now you need to work the thread through the hair without trapping it down. if you move the bobbin back and forth from the eye to the bend of the hook (so left to right as you face the hook) while you wind the thread toward the eye the thread will get in between the hairs as you go forward. take about three turns to get the thread out in front of the hair. now pack that clump of hair back toward the bend as much as you can, pull the thread very tight and make several anchor wraps around the shank. repeat as necessary. this would be for a single color of hair.
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Post by johnbenish on Mar 10, 2011 19:45:01 GMT -5
If you're married or sharing living quarters don't let your wife/whatever see the mess when you're trimming. Also keep deer patches out of reach of the dog--I once came home after the dogs had chewed up a shoebox of dyed deer hair--took a long time to clean up.
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Post by Jethro Soudant on Apr 22, 2011 17:34:43 GMT -5
Haha!!! My wife went berzerker when she realized I had been using the coffee grinder to blend dubbing..
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