My wife tied her first fly yesterday and that was the way I told her how to do it because I watched you I think I might have created a monster she loved it thanks Kelly 😊
Kelly, the tip of marabou feathers is often times stringy and with no fluff. I like my tails fluffy but with your method, you don’t get any fluff unless the tips are fluffy.
Same basic principle operates across a range of applications in fly tying. You've got the thing in wet/dry flies too, of using two, or three cock hackles rather than the singular. Same principle too with cock hackles, because not all of the entire cock hackle length is ever usable. One would rather have the part of the hackle that really matters, and have two or three, rather than one hackle that has some decent hackle fibers, buried inside a whole load of excess garbage. Never be afraid to fill the dumping basket.
A nice trick that they do a good deal in Irish/Scottish patterns actually, is to combine together different colors of hackle, rather than using all of the same one. This is always a better approach, with the more transparent, glass-like materials like cock hackle, to obtain the desired 'shade' or color, by mixing two opposing shades, instead of trying to find a dyed material that is exactly the right shade. It adds another layer of subtlety. There are lots of good 'green' wet fly patterns that when placed under close inspection, actually have colors like 'black' or bits of 'red' in them.
Love all the videos, beginning tier here. If I may ask what is the brand of those readers? I love the magnet type but can never find them in a quality lens, and nothing worse than tying and blind..lol
My wife tied her first fly yesterday and that was the way I told her how to do it because I watched you I think I might have created a monster she loved it thanks Kelly 😊
Very helpful!
Dang I've been doing that wrong for years then. Thanks for the correction, I'll be sure to remember this from now on.
Makes a lot of sense
This is an excellent tip! Thank you!
Kelly, the tip of marabou feathers is often times stringy and with no fluff. I like my tails fluffy but with your method, you don’t get any fluff unless the tips are fluffy.
Great tips thanks. No wonder my woolies are sometimes too stiff in the tail. Thanks
Now I wish I hadn't filled my bugger barn with poorly tied tails...great tip!
Same basic principle operates across a range of applications in fly tying. You've got the thing in wet/dry flies too, of using two, or three cock hackles rather than the singular. Same principle too with cock hackles, because not all of the entire cock hackle length is ever usable. One would rather have the part of the hackle that really matters, and have two or three, rather than one hackle that has some decent hackle fibers, buried inside a whole load of excess garbage. Never be afraid to fill the dumping basket.
A nice trick that they do a good deal in Irish/Scottish patterns actually, is to combine together different colors of hackle, rather than using all of the same one. This is always a better approach, with the more transparent, glass-like materials like cock hackle, to obtain the desired 'shade' or color, by mixing two opposing shades, instead of trying to find a dyed material that is exactly the right shade. It adds another layer of subtlety. There are lots of good 'green' wet fly patterns that when placed under close inspection, actually have colors like 'black' or bits of 'red' in them.
Love all the videos, beginning tier here. If I may ask what is the brand of those readers? I love the magnet type but can never find them in a quality lens, and nothing worse than tying and blind..lol
Do you remove the feather from the patch of feathers that come in the pack. Let me know if I need to rephrase my question
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whats the story with the little chicken hanging on your light
Just hanging around choking my chicken
choking, whoops
TheSlideinn haha thats pretty funny, could you do a video about your desk? ive been thinking about building a new one.
What vise is that in the video