Brights

[rezz93]

After using the bright jig from the other day with success, and then losing it to a rock, some more were needed:



1/8 triangular head in chartreuse, fuchsia flash with chartreus bucktail over. Flo Green thread collar with black front band.

The thread collar is too long due to me trying to tune the tail with the rear part of the collar. But it will fish.




Changed colors but same materials. Another bad collar.
Consistency with the thread work is coming slow for me.





Same as above with better collar and tuning.




Changed colors only and collar is still pretty good.

The four:



What I've been trying to do is tame the bucktail flare by avoiding crimping the bucktail with the first few tie-in wraps, then moving forward and making the tight wraps. This helps eliminate some of the excess flare. Once tied in well, move thread to rear to make the rear collar. Starting with loose wraps to tune the bucktail to the desired amount of flare, follow with spiral wraps to the front while pinching the rear loose threads to prevent tightening. Add tight round wraps to secure in place. Apply glue to set the collar then make finishing wraps for the green portion of the thread that will be showing as a collar. Tie in the chenille. Tie off green, glue, make black collar, glue to finish.

Here's a few pictures to clarify. This bucktail was not excessively flared after tying in due to avoiding the crimp so didn't need as much tail tuning.

A problem occurs if the rear loose wraps are to far back. This makes for a slewed tail, closing of the hook gap with thread, and generally too long a collar.

Consistency is building with more collars wrapped and the main causes of the over long collar can be avoided with the first two steps along with leaving the base thread about 1/8" in front of the hook point.
Then it's simply avoiding the mistake of 'over tuning' the tail by not getting too far back.

By making the loose wraps to start on tying in the bucktail, using loose wraps at the rear of the thread to further tune the hair down to the desired width/flair, a more varied tail can be made, from narrow to wide.