What pattern/technique do you have a hard time with?

[RJD31 0]

What pattern and/or technique do you have a difficult time with? Any fly requiring deer hair or a hook size smaller than 20 can be problematic for me.

 

Ron

[mtn 0]

deer hair patterns and also small parachutes. Just can't seem to get my head around them, otherwise i'm ok with most stuff.

[Alex C. 0]

What pattern and/or technique do you have a difficult time with? Any fly requiring deer hair or a hook size smaller than 20 can be problematic for me.

 

deer hair patterns and also small parachutes. Just can't seem to get my head around them, otherwise i'm ok with most stuff.

 

What problems do you guys have with deer hair? For small flies get a pair of 1.5X reading glasses and remember you don't need more than a few good thread wraps to hold something on the hook. When tying small parachutes, are you trying to form your head after you've wrapped and tied on the hackle?

 

 

[letumgo 0]

I have a heck of a time tying a muddler minnow. I do a nice job on the main body, but I'm never happy with the looks of the head on my muddlers or the finished flies. :wallbash:

 

The muddler minnow is one of the few flies I buy instead of tye, due to the poor results.

 

One of these days I'm going to have to sit down and finally master the technique of spun deer hair heads on muddlers...

[Inconnu 0]

Quill wings are something I have avoided as much as I can, though I am going to start working on them this winter. Married wings are just a fantasy....

[Sarunas_St 0]

 

For me it is quite difficult to tie nice czech nymphs,becouse there needs good syntetics dubbing and I trie to tie it with natural hair dubb.. :dunno:

Also salmon flies are unapproachable dream for me :crying: :wallbash:

 

[Faster Fish 0]

Am I the only one that has a hard time spinning good hackle? :dunno: Wooly buggers are ok, but dry flies drive me nuts, not to mention parachute hackle.

[Gregg A 0]

Faster I have a hard time with dry's myself. Couldnt make a decent dry with a good hackle and head. Then I read an article by Al Beaty and now I enjoy the tying dry's much more, and they look much better.

[sandflyx 0]

For me its inside out flies, jut can't get how to tie them...

[bugcam 0]

The advanced technology required to use a whip finisher eludes me. Does anyone know of a site/page or location of a step-by-step or video that could show me how to use one ?

 

Oh, I just saw Smalliehunters post re: Al Beattys' Tutorials, Yahoo!

[Faster Fish 0]

The advanced technology required to use a whip finisher eludes me. Does anyone know of a site/page or location of a step-by-step or video that could show me how to use one ?

 

Oh, I just saw Smalliehunters post re: Al Beattys' Tutorials, Yahoo!

 

 

I did a search on google for "fly tying" and there was a tutorial on using a whip finisher. It might help

 

Randy

[Chase Creek 0]

bugcam, the same technology used for whip finishers is also used in the vcr clock setting circuit. It doesn't make you less of a man.

I tied for years without learning how to use a whip finisher, then I was monkeying around with one at the bench, and the little light bulb came on! Now I can't tie without one. I'm presently working on a water-cooled model, to compliment my internal-combustion bobbins.

[jbarnick 0]

only thing i havent quite figured out is how to fold the hackle for some of the salmon style flys, so i end up just stripping half in a spey style

[Mustang Mike 0]

Hair and spinner wings are the hardest for me!!! :bugeyes:

 

I AM getting better with practice, but if I lay off a pattern for a while (like a Royal Wulff) the first few look sets of wings look like H-E-(double hockey stick!!) and I still haven't gotten the hang of making nice looking spinner wings! :crying:

[Mike Sammon 0]

What pattern and/or technique do you have a difficult time with? Any fly requiring deer hair or a hook size smaller than 20 can be problematic for me.

 

Ron

I have to agree I have deer hair is for me the toughest.I have however spoken to a friend resently who ties a lot of deer hair patterns for salt water and he said for best results you should tie three smaller clumps,one to the left ,one to the right and one on the top.Can't confirm if it works but will have fun trying it out.