How to Make a Fly Fishing Head

Video Transcript

"ALVIN DEDEAUX: So, I've got my top material, my chartreuse bucktail tied on top and see I've got a little of extra where the tips were. I want to make sure that the head of that fly is nice and smooth, nice and tapered from about the eye, the dumbbell eye, up to the eye. So what I'm going to do is just take my scissors and sort of trim some of those extra hairs off there so I don't get a big lump where that hair stops. So, I kinda go all the way around. I kinda smooth that out a little bit. Make another sure none of them are sticking out past the eye of the hook so you won't have a bunch of hair sticking out pass your thread, and then just kinda use them pretty good tension to just sort of just really get that stuff tight on the hook. And so there's a little gap between where the hair stops and when the hook starts, so I'll just kinda build that up with thread so I get a nice taper. Okay. They're nice and smooth. Once again, I don't know if the fish care at all about how smoothly tapered the head is on that thing. But when you're showing off your flies that you tied to your buddies, you don't want to looking at it, going, "Oh, look at that sloppy head on there." So now, it has got a nice tapered head and that we're ready to finish the fly off."