05-20-2011, 10:23 PM
I am in the middle of trying to copy the fly that I posted a few weeks ago looking for its name...
The beard on this fly is bucktail... which I have never tied with before.. I ran into a couple of problems (minor) that maybe someone here can help me with..
first.. hairstacker.. is that a necessary tool to have on hand and use when tying flies with bucktail? If so is there one that is better than the other or all they about the same..
now for the bucktail..
first time I tied in the beard the bucktail flared out on me.. not a huge mess but had to do a lot of cleanup to make it look right..
second time I tied it in a little looser to hold it in place and then came back over it to tighten it down.. but. .this time it seemed the hair was a little loose to the point of some of it slippling out.. I solved that with a drop of cement (at least I hope I did.. ),.,,,
so on the hair.. what is the best way to tie it in snugly without it flaring out on me??
MacFly [cool]
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The beard on this fly is bucktail... which I have never tied with before.. I ran into a couple of problems (minor) that maybe someone here can help me with..
first.. hairstacker.. is that a necessary tool to have on hand and use when tying flies with bucktail? If so is there one that is better than the other or all they about the same..
now for the bucktail..
first time I tied in the beard the bucktail flared out on me.. not a huge mess but had to do a lot of cleanup to make it look right..
second time I tied it in a little looser to hold it in place and then came back over it to tighten it down.. but. .this time it seemed the hair was a little loose to the point of some of it slippling out.. I solved that with a drop of cement (at least I hope I did.. ),.,,,
so on the hair.. what is the best way to tie it in snugly without it flaring out on me??
MacFly [cool]
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