Stroke the hair firmly back along the body and hold it. Push your finger straight towards the eye-the result will be that the hair flares out from the eye, each hair to its respective side. Wind the thread back to the front of the body. Continue adding tight thread-turns toīind most of the hair butts. Take two turns of thread around the butts, hold the butts firmly in place, and pull the turns tight. The edge of the hair-butts should be at the front of the body and the shank should be in their center. Work the butts down around the shank or push them straight back around the eye either way, Trim the butts of the hair straight across. Trim a modest-size bunch of elk hair from the hide, comb the short hairs and fuzz from the bunch, and then stack the bunch in a hair stacker. Shank behind the hook's eye for the bullet head. Complete all other parts of the fly except for the bullet head (it usually comes last) leave about one quarter of the hook's So the bullet head makes sense on imitations of big-headed insects but since lots of flies are "attractors," flies that imitate nothing in particular, theīullet head has a lot of other potential uses.Īnd, of course, there are a lot of fine fly patterns in which a bullet head was included from the start. On some flies the addition will be logical and easy on others it may be a small tactical challenge-but what kind of fly tier would shrinkįrom a challenge, especially such a modest one? ( Answer: another fly tier I'd keep a suspicious eye on.) Why not a Joe's Hopper with a bullet head? a Jughead with a bullet head? But many don't which means, of course, that they could. Many fly patterns that imitate these two insects have bullet heads. Logical Bullet Head Flies? Consider Stoneflies and Grasshoppersīut the sensible use of the bullet head is on flies that imitate insects with large heads-most notably, the stonefly Or, of course, to whatever fly he thinks he'll have fun changing-fly tiers are far less concerned on the whole with utility, I've found, than with fun. He can-and will-find a way to add it to the Sofa Pillow, the Elk Hair Caddis, and whatever fly he suspects may be improved by it So the bullet head becomes yet another option for the tier. Would be suspicious of us both, our being fly fishers in the first place.) In fact, I'd be a bit suspicious of a tier who didn't play with variations (to put this in perspective, most people There is nothing whatsoever wrong with this. "You can see I used olive synthetic dubbing and a rib instead of the orginal body." We've all heard fly fishers say they are using a "Woolly Bugger" or a "Parachute Adams," and then, as we inspect a sample, The Fly Tier's Option: Playing with Patterns
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