Fly Tying Friday, 29 December 20023, Mike Kelly tying the Sparrow and the Gimp

In this edited video of 29 December's Fly Tying Friday, Mike Kelly from Project Healing Waters in Omaha ties a couple of his favorite "older" patterns - the Sparrow (Jack Gartside) and the Gimp (Lacey Gee). Al Beatty discusses using an old-style Hackle Guard and how to adjust it to make a really good tool from one that is less than perfect.
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[@mrok3405]

Thank you for the tip. I have some of those and found them to be useless too. Glad you demonstrated their use with those adjustments. Wishing you all the best for 2024

[@mikelundrigan2285]

I use hollow pen tubes with different diameter tip holes to slide over the hook eye up against the hackle and a couple or more thread wraps over the pen tip as a half hitch tool to secure the hackle where I want it and avoid trapping hackle fibres! Also useful to push against clumps of spun deer hair to compact it and secure each clump as you build a spun deer hair body for bass bugs and Atlantic Salmon flys! Been tying for 56 years and using pens this way for about 35! Enjoy your videos which I came across yesterday! Thanks!

[@zafotbeeb]

The Sparrow is a fly I am quite fond of and the one thing I do to make the aftershaft feather more durable is to twist it up the thread and then wrap around the hook shank.
How does one go about joining your tying group?

[@albeatty1404]

Send an email to [e-mail] and request to be put on the notification list for the Friday Zoom presentations. We are taking next Friday (5Jan24) off then will be back on schedule until the end of May 2024.

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