flare on deer hair

[laserdoc]

Been using some deer belly hair on these jigs. I really do like it but how do I keep it from flaring out when I wrap the shank. If I wrap it to loose it would just pull out

[smoothlures]

Nothing you can do, really. Maybe try dabbing glue on before you tie it down and letting it half dry?

[AtticaFish]

Use buck tail, belly hair is better suited for spun hair flies, at least in my opinion. The tail hair is pretty bouyant as well, shouldn't mess with the float of the jig.

[PawPaw Gene]

When I use bucktail as you have, I tie it loosely and then put on a little super glue and spray it with and accelerator. It dries instantly. I then wrap it tightly and proceed with the jig.

"gene"

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[redear]

that hair is pretty course, and is probably hollow inside. If ya use the tails from deer in the southern states, the smaller the better, then you wont have that problem, because it's finer, straighter, and solid. around here we have hunt clubs, and during deer season it's not hard to collect some tails from those guys. just get them before they start skinning, because blood is impossible to get out of the hair. I freeze them as is. dying them is another story, ya gotta use a dye for hair, like fly dye, by orco, there are others too.

[laserdoc]

What do you use for an accelerator spray?

When I use bucktail as you have, I tie it loosely and then put on a little super glue and spray it with and accelerator. It dries instantly. I then wrap it tightly and proceed with the jig.

"gene"

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[PawPaw Gene]

It's called "Stick Fast" and I purchase it from <woodturningz.com>. As a hobby I turn ink pens out of wood, antler and plastics. Superglue is about the best and quickest finish you can put on a pen made of wood or antler. Since it is applied in multi-layers, you need to have it dry quickly so as to put on the next coat. Works real well and only a shot is needed from the aerosol can.

"gene"

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[gabulldog]

body hair from deer is hollow and will flare like that use tails

[skiptomylu]

If you want the best solutions I would ask that on a fly tying board like the one I gave you a link to, but I make loose wraps when away from the head and then tighter as I get closer to the head. You need them firm enough to help hole, but not so much it make it flair. It's going to flair some though.

Also if you wrap to tight it will cut the hair.

Also make sure to have a good base of thread on the hook shank before you start.

Skip

[OKSTATEjiggy]

1. thinner hair 2. a few easy wraps of chenille back over the hair then front to the eye 3. what skip said