Tups Indefensible

[Hans Weilenmann]

Jim Slattery is a connoisseur of the whip-finish head, and I don't think he would approve of mine looking like a shapeless lump. This is partly because I dislike using head cement, so I do a double whip finish. Looks like the dog's breakfast. The head seems to be a kind of signature of each tyer, and I don't seem to have the skill yet to make one that I can be proud of. Practice, practice.

*chuckle*

My spin on it is to make it go AWOL



Cheers,
Hans W

[gingerdun]

Hans, you tickle me. AWOL indeed. Do you have this disappearing head technique down in one of your videos?

What do you call it? The Headless Horseman? Chicken with its Head Cut Off?

[DNicolson]

That is a great fly,I like the button-hole twist. Never heard of Corticelli.

Here is my own version of Leisenring's Tup's Nymph.

[gingerdun]

That's a beauty, Donald. A perfect addition to this string.

Lance

[Izaak]

Hans must have a special guillotine tool or something.....

[Hans Weilenmann]

Hans, you tickle me. AWOL indeed. Do you have this disappearing head technique down in one of your videos?

It is called a three turn whip finish head

Cheers,
Hans W

[Jim Slattery]

Lance,
Your a chip off the old block.
What Hans said "3 turn whip finish"
Flies will not come apart, especially if you use the "secret' wax, there is your insurance that you didn't leave the stove on.
Jim

[gingerdun]

With guys like Weilenmann and Slattery ganging up on me about my whip finish, must mean I'm doing something right.
Yeah, Jim, you're right, I feel a little loyalty to Dad's style, which was deliberately different from Leisenring's, and based on long experience. But I haven't been able to make them as clean as his, except a couple times by accident. Leisenring's super-slim, tapered heads are nice, I have to admit. Don't see that style very much.
I gotta think about this, and maybe interview a few trout to learn whose style they like best.

Lance

[Soft-hackle]

Another version.

Mark

[CreationBear]

I've always loved that version. Is the hackle that elusive "blue dun" or it more of a honey?