How to Make the Finishing Touches on the Woolly Worm Trout Fly for Fly Fishing

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Ed Story on behalf of expertvillage.com. My website is www.feather-craft.com fly fishing. Again I like to secure the thread to the hook shank with a two whip wood finish locking the thread to the hook shank because our next step I'm going to swing the bobbin cradle around on this two rotatory vise and lay the bobbin in the bobbing cradle. Then I'm going to take our hackle plier and come back and get our hackle and we are going to wrap palmer wrap which means the dull side of the feather is facing us as oppose as the color side of the feather. We grab the feather on the top of the feather with our hackle plier. I'm going to use a true rotatory device to roll the hook shank on its own access and bring the hackle back to the weighting thread behind the hook eye and we are going to push the bobbin cradle out of the way. Bring the thread up and around the hook shank, locking the hackle in place until we switch hands and simply tie the hackle in with thread wraps. Then we are going to use our scissors to cut away the waste. Smooth the hackles back again take our wood finisher. Build up a fly head at the same time were finishing with the wood finisher and our fly is finish and ready to fish. We simply cut away the thread and we are ready to go fishing. This would be called a wilily worm type fly. We use a natural material here pine squirrel dabbed on to the tyeing thread to build a fly body and then we palmer wrap the hackle over the fly body up to the hook eye and finish the fly head. It is now ready to fish. To fish a pattern like this we simply cast it up across the stream, pull the fly under with our fly rod and then skip it with our rod tip down across the stream for great success. "