Fly Fishing Help

[Terry Beeson]

Mrs Ducky... to answer your questions.... "very carefully"... "sometimes".... "yes"....

Now... more seriously, as Michael suggested, I would learn how to use a Whip Finisher, but for half hitches, you can use the end of an old empty pen to help you make good half hitches. Use the "click" type pen barrels, not the Bic type although they will work. Just wrap the thread around the pen to form a loop and slip the hook eye into the hole in the pen, then pull the thread loop over the pen and onto the hook/fly just behind the eye. Do this several times and cement the head.

But.. still... get a whip finisher and you'll "throw rocks" at half hitching.

[MrDucky]

Wow I Know this is an old thread , But it's funny to go back and look at what Tami and I went thru learning how to Fly Fish .

[Rolan Duffield]

Mr.Ducky:

I would be glad to teach you how to make a "Whip finish" to finish the fly. It's the first thing we taught flytiers in fly tying classes. You can finish off a fly faster, using this method, than the time it takes most fly tiers to pick up their whip finishers.

Once you learn this method, you'll never pick up that tool again.

I will be at Lilleys starting Oct.5th through the 12th.

Rolan