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[flytire 0]

Protein Flame

Steelhead

Ed Haas

Tail - Red hackle
Body - Hot pink chenille
Wing - Black squirrel tail

Art of Angling Journal - Spring 2002

[cphubert 0]

4 hours ago, flytire said:

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Nicely tied, Norm how do you handle your chenille do you twist tight or brush it ? it always looks perfect. I wonder if being  a southpaw if I am untwisting when I wrap it, just thinking out loud will have to play with it.

[flytire 0]

i used a ultra chenille on that fly which is mor densely packed than standard danville chenille

i do twist the standard chenille prior to wrapping

[niveker 0]

With chenille thats not as dense, and other materials like ropes of peacock hurl, I stroke the material back while wrapping, like when palmering hackle, to try and get that dense wrap that flytire's bodies always have.