Jeff wrote in
hlink.net:

My fishing mentor and full-gospel life's work critic, pj, claimed i
was doing something wrong tying an improved clinch by threading bottom
to top (up from the bend of hook). I allowed (silently of course) as
how he was full of **** as the way the fly floated or the purchase of
the clinch knot were not affected by the threading direction. I'm
sure the bend of the eye and the particular knot may implicate a
particular direction for the threading process, but i don't think any
of the knots i tie on hook eyes (clinch, improved clinch, and palomar)
are affected.

jeff

riverman wrote:

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"Wayne Harrison" wrote in

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"Tony & Barb Vellturo" wrote in message
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Is there a preferred way to insert the tippet though the eye of the
hook depending on the type of fly? (Up thru or down thru the eye?)

Tony

hilarious; and just when ya thought that every possible question
had
been asked...

wayno (sorry, but i don't know the answer, tony)




For a cinch knot, it should make no difference. I suspect it makes a
huge difference for a Turle knot, though.


I read somewhere before I was a fly fisherman that up through the eye
was better. I remember this because they mentioned that its easier to
thread it down through (with a TDE hook) so most fishermen were doing
it wrong. Not having the appropriate congnitive framework to
assimilate that paragidm meant that I was unable to encode the
information in a manner that effectively let me decode and recall it
later, however.

--riverman
(Gotta get my head OUT of these education grad school classes!!!)




I prefer my eggs broken on the small end.

Scott