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FishnPhil

Preventing feather twist

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Haha now that sounds way too easy and makes too much sense, just spin it opposite.

 

Similar as flytire and flicted suggested, boils down to material control.

 

I also appreciate Mikechell's suggestion, lol. Anyone want to buy some tenkara purple buggers?

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Am I the only one that has this problem? Any tips?

 

Tying up some buggers and ESLs and with the longer feathers they have a tendency to want to twist which faces the hackle in the wrong direction.

 

I can post examples of what I mean if it helps, but am guessing this is common and people have all kinds of tips and ways to solve it.

Hi FishnPhil,

 

We have a YouTube video that might help. I think the answer will be at minute 2:13 if I understand the problem. Here is the link if you are interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYhbh40I4nY. Take care & ...

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