Ain't nobody here but us chickens.

I'm wondering in which time zone it's still 2009. Maybe I could redo a couple of years.

Anyway, welcome.

You're right of course; from the perspective of a commercial tyer, it's better to waste a little thread than time. For a 12 year kid in 1964, whose only source of tying thread was mail order (or use sewing thread), the sight of six inches or so of thread going into the waste basket after every fly w...

It's a bit unclear how to interpret the chart. Items which either "match the hatch" or are debris will also fit into either the "less than 5mm" or "larger than 5mm" categories. Also, it could be argued that if an item didn't fall into the "match the hatch" cat...

OH Yeah!........the old thumbtack trick............... :lol: if you ever get the chance to visit the Dette Fly Shop, i SURE hope you don't pass that up..........it's a glimps into almost 100 years of fly tying tradition................far as wasted thread goes..............Mary has her son wax it f...

A thumbtack in the edge of the table works nicely, too. You still waste a lot of thread without the bobbin holder.

narcodog wrote:Here is a question about thread. After watching the video I was wondering how many of you half hitch everytime you add in a piece of material.

I stopped after acquiring a bobbin holder sometime in the 70's. Before that I half hitched after every step.

.....personally i'd consider it "unfortunate" if these things bothered me more when i wasn't catching fish, then when i was. When i'm not catching fish.....it's usually because i'm so wraped up in simply enjoying the location, that "catching" is.......well, something unimportant...

Mark -

Thanks for posting this. I'm going to have to try this technique.

Bill -
Great to see you posting pictures! Great looking fly, as well.

Another vote for #1, but they both look great.