Palmering

"Jarmo Hurri" wrote in message
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riverman When I tie Wooly Buggers, the hackle fibers inevitably end
riverman up either vertical at best, or more commonly pointing
riverman forward. ... What's the trick?

Hi Myron!

The experts will give you the correct answer soon, but I've always
solved this problem by using reverse palmering:

http://www.frontrangeanglers.com/new...ersehackle.htm

--
Jarmo Hurri

Hey Jarmo;
Yep, thats what I was leading myself into also. I think thats how MC showed
me to do it in Denmark, also, but I haven't tied any wooly buggers in a
while and forgot! I can see three distinct advantages to it:
1) the hackle lies back the way it's supposed to
2) since the longer hairs are up near the head, the shape of the fly is more
like a bait fish
3) the windings over the top lock down the palmered hackle so that it won't
unwind if some fish bites it once too often.

Seeing as how its not a floating fly, the extra trips up the shaft of the
fly with the thread don't cause any negative effect on the weight, either.

I think I might just reverse palmer and not even care about why my straight
palmers don't curl right.

--riverman