Understand Line Patterns & How to Use Them When Fly Fishing

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Jim Dowd with Zoar Outdoor for Expert Village to talk with you about fly casting and fly fishing. Now what I am doing is I am wrapping this thread all the way down to the bend in the hook. You get about half-way you can cut off the end and put it in your waste basket. So I am wrapping the thread one turn against the next all the way down the hook right till the point of where the straight part goes into the curve, and at this point, we are going to tie in the marabou. For this particular pattern, I am using black marabou on a windy day, and it is going to dance all over the place, but you can see the wind working this marabou. One of the reasons this stuff works so well, is because it undulates in the water the same way. So what I do is I take out the very tip of the marabou like this and I cut it off and put it in my waste control system, and I tease out about half an inch of the marabou material just about like this. You see I separate the marabou material, pull the stuff apart so that I have that much. I put it against the bend in the hook and I just draw it down nice and gently, make 2 turns, and now I am going to measure this marabou against the length of the shaft up to the hook. Length of the shaft to the hook is about that long, so I am going to draw it back up this way so that the marabou is just the length of the shaft of the hook. I clip this off, right there and that part is done. "