How to Add Sparkle Flash to Your Fly 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 I’m going to put some sparkle flash on the fly. I cut off 2 strands of sparkle flash, grasp them in my fingers even up the ends like this, double them over and cut them so now I have 4 pieces. I match up the ends of the sparkle flash to where this marabou ends, make 1 turn over the shaft of the hook and a second turn, and I gather the pieces that are out in the front, draw them back and make 1 more turn. So now I’ve got flash in that marabou, and I am going to cover it with one more layer of marabou, same as before. Get about a half an inch of the material, draw it all together. In this case, I am using the scissors to help me, just pick it out. So I have an amount about like this. Place it on the hook, just like so, make a turn over, 1 more turn nice and loose and I draw this piece so that the tips on the end are equal to the first piece. See that? They are all the same. Make 1 more turn, clip the excess and now the tail is done. "