How to Lay Finger Blended Fur to Fly Body: Fly Tying Tips for Fly Fishing

Video Transcript

"My website is www.feather-craft.com fly fishing. We are going to take a clump of pine squirrel hide as we did before. We are going to finger blend it so the guard hairs mix with the under fur. Then we are going to tease a portion of it out. We have teased our fur out into a cob web to make it easier to pinch onto the thread like this. We lay the finger blended fur under the thread moisten our finger, pinch and roll in one direction only forming a fly body as we roll it. We are now ready to move the fly body forward and the hook shank creating the fly body to bring the hackle over the top and around the hook shank in a palmer wrap. Here is the fly body and we are simply impervious a new trout fly using pine squirrel."