When tying with foam…..

[Joel Thompson]

I have a quick question. When tying with foam how do you keep it from spinning on the hook? This has always been a bit of a struggle of mine and has wondering if any of you all have any good tips.

Joel

[Michael Exl]

A little bit of Zap-A-Gap on the thread base works for me.

-Mike

[Rob Snowhite]

i’ll either tie down a thin strand of foam and put some clear nail polish on it or tie in some antron or yarn to form a base layer. then tie in the foam over.

[Neal Osborn]

Joel,

What type of foam are you interested in tying?  For example, long skinny foam like terrestrial bodies vs broad flat bodies like gurglers?  

On the quick, here is a trick I learned a while back for securing bodies in general.  You probably already know this technique but good to post anyway.  Pre-wrap the foam with one complete turn of thread and then do your second wrap on the hook and back over the foam.  When you pull tight the foam will be directly locked at that point.  This works for deer hair also and this is the trick I use to get tight heads on patterns where I need to avoid “spinning” the hair or materials.

[Joel Thompson]

Neal, I have used that on deer hair and elk hair but never foam. I will give it a shot and see how it works out for me. And if that doesn’t work I guess I will resort to the sticky stuff!

Great drawing by the way Neal! 🙂

Joel

[Mike McKeown]

I use that for quite a lot of stuff, keeping tails in place on 20#’s and smaller, foam, hair…

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