Fly Tying: How to Spin Deer Hair

Hey Guys,
I had a amazing opportunity to head down to Mexico and fish Lake Picachos with Nomadic Waters Expeditions and wanted to take the opportunity to film some Top Water Deer Hair Tutorials.
First video is on How To Stack Deer Hair with the second being How to Spin Deer Hair. These videos serve as a technique breakdown to help get you started in your journey of Deer Hair Tying. For additional Resources please refer to Pat Cohen's DVD Series on his website rusuperfly.com/ as well as his new book!
Hope you enjoy
-Gunnar
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[@cuanmuyllaert6930]

Thanks a million Gunner. Concise and clear.

[@diabetichoneybee8796]

Your instructions were very clear. Excellent video. Thank you.

[@johnnylightning1491]

Thanks Gunnar, spinning hair is a skill any good fly tier needs in their arsenal of skills. Keep the good stuff coming.

[@KamikazePidgey]

Thank you gunnar, you really do inspire a lot with your videos. Learnt everything from basics all the way to this over the past year. Thanks again for everything 🤙🏻

[@TheCanary24]

Nice to share this technique! Thank you!

[@rayditzenberger9517]

Very good instructions imo. You tie very much like i do with hair bugs but much better. A couple of details are different from my procedures but almost the exact same. Thanks for posting. I started over 50 yr ago and had to figure it out on my own and i am surprised how close we ended up on technique. I hope many beginners find your vids. The one thing i would like to see is more detail on thread. I started with a real heavy rod wrapping thread from Herters. I may still have a little of it in my supplies. I used mostly body hair and still do. I tie mostly variations of Tappleys bugs. I sometimes leave the faces as tied and sometimes i smear on a little 6000 glue or shoe goo which firms up the face to create a different sound. The tapered body allows the rear of the bug to sit low in the water as a frog or injured minnow does

[@bradkretzschmar6772]

Thank you for this! Now I can perfect the heads on my buford flies for muskies

[@mikeking453]

Thanks for posting

[@cachi-7878]

Gunnar, some people say you should never put a base of thread when spinning hair, as it prevents it from doing so. Others claim you should ALWAYS lay a base of thread, no matter what. What’s your take?