Working with floss

[William Anderson]

Thanks for the kind words.

Jerry, each of these were tied during different sessions. To be nit picky, you can tell I have fallen into a pretty standard method of ribbing these flies, but the degree of twist is mostly just consistsent within the tying session and not so much from month to month between sets. The ribbing on the 9A fly is a tag that is twisted and brought back up by hand. I do prefer to just twist the bobbin and bring the wraps back up as the rib, but I'm not married to any of it. I have flirted with a common union situation with these silk bodies for a bit.

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[Jerry G]

Thanks for the kind words.

Jerry, each of these were tied during different sessions. To be nit picky, you can tell I have fallen into a pretty standard method of ribbing these flies, but the degree of twist is mostly just consistsent within the tying session and not so much from month to month between sets. The ribbing on the 9A fly is a tag that is twisted and brought back up by hand. I do prefer to just twist the bobbin and bring the wraps back up as the rib, but I'm not married to any of it. I have flirted with a common union situation with these silk bodies for a bit.

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William thanks for the reply. I thought perhaps it was a tag wrap that was used for the ribbing that then got me wondering about where you might have started the wraps of silk for the body. Perhaps a flat base of silk started up by the eye securing the hackle and wrapped to the rear then leaving a tag at the rear a spun silk body is brought forward, then counter wrap the tag forward? As mentioned it's not all that important and had you not reversed the wrap I wouldn't be asking. It is interesting to me though how you folks that tie these exquisite flies get these results.

Regards, Jerry