Cat's whisker (streamer) question

"Conan The Librarian" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Howdy,

I posted this to another forum, but thought it might be interesting to
see what ROFFians and ROFFTians have to say about it:

I was reading an article that mentions the cat's whisker (and
variations thereof) as being a good fly for some of the waters I regularly
fish. In reading various tying instructions and descriptions of the fly,
it seem that it's usually tied with bead-chain eyes. My questions a Are
the bead-chain eyes tied on like a Clouser (i.e., on the "outside" of the
shank so the fly will ride hook-point up)? And if so, do you tie the wing
on the hook side so it is on top of the fly?

My reason for asking this is that I hate having the wing on the hook
side, as it invariably twists arond the hook, and could even interfere
with hook-setting.

So do you just put the wing on the bottom, or do you put the bead-chain
eyes on the other side of the shank so it rides hook-point down? Or am I
making much ado about nothing? :-)


Chuck Vance

It was not originally tied with bead chain eyes;

http://business.virgin.net/british.c...tswhisker.html

TL
MC