Things You'll Need:
- Five sections from a turkey round
- Hook
- Rotary fly vice
- Tweezers
- Whip finisher
- Hackle pliers
- Thread
- Fly body material (folded piece of squirrel hide)
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Step 1
Place your hook and feathers into your rotary flying tying vice. The quill of the feathers will be pointing away from the barb of your hook. You can use five sections from a turkey round to tie a crackle back fly for fly fishing.
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Step 2
Grasp the tying thread in your tweezers and wind it forward until it is just behind the hook eye.
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Step 3
Secure the tying thread with your whip finisher, but only do two rotations.
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Step 4
Rotate the vice so that you can lay thread in the bobbin cradle.
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Step 5
Use your hackle pliers to grasp the body material (a folded piece of squirrel hide) when you tie a crackle back fly for fly fishing.
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Step 6
Turn the hook and feathers with the arm on the rotary vice to turn the hook. Wrap the body material around the hook, building up the body of the hook.
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Step 7
Tie the material in once you reach the end of the hook shank with simple thread wraps. Snip any loose ends and admire your work. You have just tied a crackle back fly for fly fishing, one of the most popular flies around.
