A)
- Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of
the
hook.
- Take just one strand of Krystal flash and double it
up 4
times and tie it in as a tag. The finished tag should only be about
half the gape of the hook long.
- Wind the thread forward 2/3 of the way along the
shank of
the hook toward the eye to where the body will finish.
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B)
- Tie in several strands of peacock herl.
- Form the herl into a herl rope.
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C)
- Wind the herl rope along the rear 2/3 of
the hook shank to
form an acorn shaped body.
- Trim the excess herl directly in front of the body.
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D)
- Hold
the hackle along the side of the hook shank with the dull side toward
you at the tie in point adjacent to the thread. The tip of the hackle
should extend out above the fly and toward the rear and the butt end
should extend below the fly and toward the front.
- Now hold the hackle in place with your left hand and
take
2
or 3 firm
turns of thread to lock it into place
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E)
- Trim the butt end of the hackle. The
hackle should be
at around 45 degrees to the hook shank and on the vertical plane not
the horizontal plane. That is, from the side it should look like this.
- Take the
thread forward to where the hackle will finish.
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E)
- Wind the hackle
forward in touching turns to the thread.
- When the hackle reaches the thread, whilst holding
the
hackle in place
with your left hand or via the hackle pliers in the left hand take 2 or
3 firm wraps of thread
where the last wrap of the hackle touches the shank of the hook and
trim the tip off close to the shank of the hook using a sharp blade
rather than your
scissors.
- Build up a neat head of thread in the space
remaining just
behind the eye of the hook.
- Trim the thread and varnish the head.
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