Hey Levi! Nice video as usual. Another method you can use for attaching oval tinsel that won't increase the size of the body or put a bump in the body is to strip the last inch or so of tinsel off your oval tinsel exposing the cotton core. The core is usually two or three cotton threads with the tinsel wound around it. You can also use this stripping technique with chenille for a no-bump tie-in. You can tie in that core tag with two wraps and then pull the end of it to bring the start of the tinsel tight to the tie in spot. Then cover the rest of the tag, letting the core threads separate from each other as you tie, and continue to advance your thread to the front of the fly to tie in the flat tinsel. Then wrap the tinsel down to the tail and back up to the front with close and/or slightly overlapping wraps. You'll end up with double-wrapped tinsel body with no gaps in the tinsel. Now this wrapping the tinsel from the front to the tail and then back up is an old technique that I learned when all the tinsel we had was metallic tinsel, which doesn't stretch like mylar tinsel does. We used that method with metallic tinsel because it hid any small gaps that might appear from it being wound in only one direction. I've continued to do that even with mylar tinsel that does stretch because it always makes a nice looking tinsel body and old habits die hard! 😉 You can always just wrap the mylar tinsel forward pulling slightly on it to get it to conform nicely to the underbody as you wrap. Just look for gaps on the other side of the fly before you trim the waste at the tie-off. Also, for extra durability if you need it, coat the body and ribbing with some head cement or better yet some of your UV Epoxy.
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Hey Levi! Nice video as usual.
Another method you can use for attaching oval tinsel that won't increase the size of the body or put a bump in the body is to strip the last inch or so of tinsel off your oval tinsel exposing the cotton core. The core is usually two or three cotton threads with the tinsel wound around it. You can also use this stripping technique with chenille for a no-bump tie-in. You can tie in that core tag with two wraps and then pull the end of it to bring the start of the tinsel tight to the tie in spot. Then cover the rest of the tag, letting the core threads separate from each other as you tie, and continue to advance your thread to the front of the fly to tie in the flat tinsel. Then wrap the tinsel down to the tail and back up to the front with close and/or slightly overlapping wraps. You'll end up with double-wrapped tinsel body with no gaps in the tinsel.
Now this wrapping the tinsel from the front to the tail and then back up is an old technique that I learned when all the tinsel we had was metallic tinsel, which doesn't stretch like mylar tinsel does. We used that method with metallic tinsel because it hid any small gaps that might appear from it being wound in only one direction. I've continued to do that even with mylar tinsel that does stretch because it always makes a nice looking tinsel body and old habits die hard! 😉 You can always just wrap the mylar tinsel forward pulling slightly on it to get it to conform nicely to the underbody as you wrap. Just look for gaps on the other side of the fly before you trim the waste at the tie-off.
Also, for extra durability if you need it, coat the body and ribbing with some head cement or better yet some of your UV Epoxy.
That there is a beautiful fly
Thanks!
Great fly can you use the on the Great Lakes for some steelhead
Absolutely!