That video by Davie is excellent.
I tie mine differently,
Here is how I build a Harelug and plover (optional gold butt omitted)
This fly is tied here - NOT in the traditional collar hackled version, but Stewart style Spider, it is my preferred spider construction for action and durability.
Materials required...
Kamasan B160, #14
Yellow Pearsall's silk waxed and waxed again
Golden plover hackle, long enough of fiber to reach almost into the bend, NO longer, long enough to reach the barb is fine.
A tiny pinch of dark fur from root of hare's ear
1. take four turns around the hook iron, just behind the hook eye.
Push the thread right up behind the eye and cut off excess.
Lay in a spoon shaped feather to suit the hook, convex side down, on top of the shank.
Trap the hackle with four turns, break off hackle butt and wind the silk to opposite hook point.
Dub hare fur on to the silk
2. wind the dubbed hare to 1/2 way point of body, let thread hang
3. Find the tip of the feather - run your fingernail down the far side of the hackle stem to 'break' the set of the fibers on the stem to assist winding
4. Wind the hackle three or four turns to arrive at the thread hang point and tie the hackle tip in with two turns, be gentle or you will break the hackle tip
5. Wind the thread wiggling it to and fro, back and forward through the hackle to the head
6 Groom back any unruly fibers and take a turn of silk to secure
7. Whip finish, cut off hackle tip and cut off silk
The same procedure can be used, building the body all along the shank, then taking 1-2 turns of collar hackle, then whip finish.
I find this method easier as the hackle is tied in at the start so you don't have to fight with the hackle,as you would if tying it in last at the head.
If you can tie as well as Davie, you won't have that problem.
Hope that helps,
Roy Christie
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