I couldn’t work out if you paired the peacock? Doesn’t look like it. I’m not a nit-picker by nature, but what’s going on with the hackle? First you strip half of it for some mysterious reason, then you tie the thread over it !? If you find winding hackles difficult, a false hackle would have done just as well, and been neater and less bulky. It’s a good fly and it will catch, but I wouldn’t want people thinking this is the way to do it
I by far favor half stripped winded hackle to false hackle, more consistent shape and durability. Stripping half of the barbules renders the fly less bulky. Peacock swords are paired.
@@euroflyangler That doesn’t make sense to me. If you keep the hackle intact you need half the number of turns, so it’s going to be less bulky. And if you use a false hackle, which I must admit I’m not a fan of, you have no stem involved, so it’s automatically less bulky ( if you do it right ). Honestly I’ve never seen a wet fly hackle done like that, though I do see a lot of dry flies done with half-stripped hackles. The tyers are looking for super-neatness, but to me it looks unnatural, pretty dreadful really.
A brilliant fly.
I couldn’t work out if you paired the peacock? Doesn’t look like it. I’m not a nit-picker by nature, but what’s going on with the hackle? First you strip half of it for some mysterious reason, then you tie the thread over it !? If you find winding hackles difficult, a false hackle would have done just as well, and been neater and less bulky.
It’s a good fly and it will catch, but I wouldn’t want people thinking this is the way to do it
I by far favor half stripped winded hackle to false hackle, more consistent shape and durability. Stripping half of the barbules renders the fly less bulky. Peacock swords are paired.
@@euroflyangler That doesn’t make sense to me. If you keep the hackle intact you need half the number of turns, so it’s going to be less bulky. And if you use a false hackle, which I must admit I’m not a fan of, you have no stem involved, so it’s automatically less bulky ( if you do it right ). Honestly I’ve never seen a wet fly hackle done like that, though I do see a lot of dry flies done with half-stripped hackles. The tyers are looking for super-neatness, but to me it looks unnatural, pretty dreadful really.