Now that's too close.... in the timing of our posts, Mike!
and almost the same ideas! Scares me! is there any hope?

FliTrap

A variation to what you have already figured out, is to finish your thread body, then tie in your hackle, dull side up and extending out over the eye of the hook. Now, please note that you will need to leave enough bare hook shaft "in front of your thread, to later, add the head of the fly! Fro...

Thanks, guys, for the feedback! As mush As I tie flies, I've always viewed it as a sideline activity between trips to the water! I enjoy the time lending a hand to those getting started in the art of tying, but make an effort to explain the "what and why for..." sides of doing it! There ar...

Wow! What a great day at the vice, yesterday! I was asked to tie Demo at a local fly shop that was hosting a field day for various rod reps in the area! There was food, great demos of the latest rods and, can I say… many folks (I hear that they ate some 26 full packs of hot dogs out in the yard!) th...

S. Doc. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! In reading your words, I was thinking about how such memories are so important to us, and to what days we have left on the river. There are few days in which I sit at my tying table, wet a line or simply read book on fly fishing that I don’t stop to recall a...

Collections?..... Wow! I started thinking about this and came to realize that this whole thing, of a "hobby" has become a long string of collections for me. The fly tying part, started about 11 years ago for me. Like most, or at least many... It started out as a "box kit"; a gift...