Padron

Hi I have used the CdL from Hairline and they make superb tails due to their stiffness and coloration. The price is a bit steep but you will only use a few fibers for each fly. I have no experience of the Whiting product.

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OK, but you will have to do with some half-crappy pics (I´ll try to get some better later), these were taken shortly after the idea was born. Here's a picture of the trimmed knot on the wing material (Aerowing by Tiemco is what I use most of the time) Excuse those dirty nails Here the attached wing which is actually a little bit too tightly attached, more slack is better but depends on the used body material. Hackle secured Hackle wound Some finished flies where the knot is visible: Size 21 TMC103BL showing the knot works neat on small ones A yellow mayfly with detached polychenille body (pattern from Andre Brun) A mix of normal hackle and CdC in split thread As I said, these pics are not very good due to bad camera, bad photographer and not perfected tecnique at the moment

Hi! I am new to this board and just started browsing through all the interesting posts and I wanted to check an idea that came to me some months ago: While tying parachute hackles on flies with polywings I made a knot on the wing material before applying it to the hook and attached it to the hook leaving a little bit of free wing "under" the knot. I then attached the hackle at the wing "root" and wound it under the knot but over the body and atfer some practising got really great results. The knot stops the hackle from slipping up on the wing and if perfectly executed even holds the fibers down making the hackle compact and (in my eyes) really good looking. Another great advantaqge is that the wing gets sturdy enough to remove the need for a "parachute gallows" (is that the word? nah?). After winding the hackle, the part of the wing above the knot can be cut off completely wich may be useful for sedge patterns and such. The thing is, I wonder if this is an original Padron-idea or if it has been thought of before? Excuse my English and let me know if you would like pictures. Cheers!