Putting a Whip Finish Behind Your Lure's Bed Head

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Jim Dowd at Zoar Outdoor for Expert Village to talk with you about fly casting and fly fishing. So the next step and the final step is to put a whip finish right behind the bead head, and the way you do that is you catch the fly line in a loop, as you can see with my thumb and my fingers, or use a whip finish tool. This is a one hand whip finish. So you catch it and you make 7 turns; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 and you’ve got a loop. Reach over, and I grab my dubbing needle and pull down with the bobbin and nice and slowly and evenly I guide that loop back in. Draw it smoothly and snuggly. I do 3 more for insurance; 1, 2 and 3. That just protects the first knot in case things start to work loose, but it is exactly the same step repeated. Work it in, seat it, put the needle on the magnet, slide your scissors down, clip and there you have it; the wooly bugger. One of the most effective fresh water flies there is. "