Problem on a catskill
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Sounds like you may be crowding the eye of the hook and your hackle is right up agianst the hook eye.
Hackle pointing a little forward isn’t necessary a bad thing. 😉 Try a couple of things and you might get a little more consistent result.
1. tie in the hackle with the shiny (convex) side face you,
2. wrap just a wisp of dubbing behind and in front of the wings where you are going to wind the hackle. It will help seat the hackle and keep it in place.
3. Strip off a few more hackle barbs on the right side of the hackle. It will help start the first wrap with the hackle oriented correctly.
4. Before you wrap the hackle bend the hackle stem backwards just enough to bend the stem. It will help getting the first wrap started.
Look at this tutorial I did for LRO Journal, it has photos for most of the tips I have mentioned. Notice even here not all of my hackle fibers are completely vertical, I think flies tied like that look good, but a few fibers pointing slightly forward may give the fly a more realistic footprint in my opinion.
http://littleriveroutfitters.com/littleriverjournal/storiesmay09/syates/cfly.htm
Oppps! I’m sorry, I bet you have to be a subscriber to the journal to see the archives. Hopefully the tips I gave you will help. If you have any interest you can go to the Little River site and sign up for the journal and then you would be able to see the archive. Click on the link for Little River Journal under the banner photo of the fish. Then go to the bottom of the page and sign up for the email newletter.
http://littleriveroutfitters.com/forum/index.php
*note I have no financial stake or interest in LRO or the Little River Journal. Byron, Paula, and Daniel are my friends and they have a nice little shop in Townsend TN. Anyone that has any interest in fishing the Great Smoky Mt National Park would do well to browse the forums and the journal.
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