Sorry, but admin has asked me which account I'd like to keep. So I am having to let braveheart go and since I will no longer have control over my sbs's I have no choice but to delete them.
However these sbs's and many more are available, free, on ukflydressing and the wild fishing forums.

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do you find ribbing with tinsel is as secure as wire?

i've just been tying some bumbley type flies and was wondering

i tend to rib first with tinsel then wind the hackle and fix it in with wire, but sometimes it looks like there is a bit too much going on.

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I prefer to tie the palmer hackle in at the tail by the point with the tying silk before dubbing the body as I find it slips from under the rib too many times. After tying the body I reverse palmer the hackle, rather than go over and under I go under and over, so that the rib still binds the hackle down as it is tyed along the shank. I do that on all palmered and ribbed hackle flies, that way they don't fall apart quite as often

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Great fly for those far of places. One of my best ever days fishing loch ba was with a cast of 3 blue zulus i tried to chop and change through the day but on this day this is what they wanted. I allso read many years ago that the blue hackle in the fly actually looks more of an olive colour to the trout in peat stained water so i tried this in my 5 foot amazon tetra tank in the house and it does change to olive when viewed from below ?

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Not a method I favour fishtales, I rarely have the hackle slip out from under the rib.
Thanks for your reply though, it lets others see there is more than one way to skin a cat.
I always say there is no right or wrong way to tie flies, only a different way.

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