A hackel wing

Hook: Mustad 1/16 # 2
Thread: Black
Tail: About 10 white rooster hackle fibres
Ribb: Copper wire
Body: Chartreuse craft fur cut fine and dubbed
Wing: A large white rooster hackle - wind as hackle 4 or 5 turns, then after tying in hackle and cutting off excess, stroke all the fibres upwards, then take three turns of tying thread around the up-held hackle barbs. This gives a kind of pony tail. Wind the tying thread down the hook, locking the wing into position.
Hackle: Green hen
Head: Green nail polishhttp://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...influenced.jpg

Nice looking jig!!!! If you don't want to cut up the craft fur, wind it on then use the hook part of Velcro on it and it will give it the same look. Here's the little tool I made to do it. You can make them using both parts of the Velcro.

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...f/100_1952.jpg

It is Nice looking tie! I use a tooth pick I wrapped Velcro around. It's kind of small, but works

I hoped I'd get some discussion concerning the technique of making the wing, but it's early days, someone may try it and post what they think.

I didn't think to use a velcro tool, but If I did, I'd only tease the fibers out under the body just behind the green hackle. The idea was to have a segmented look to the body. If I tied the jig again, I'd use a wider rib or 2 pieces of wire twisted together. I think if the rib was thicker and tied tight, it would give a more segmented grub-like look to the body.

A little velcro tool is worth carrying when fishing.

Here's a link showing a hackle wing - but if you turn it as on troutingintas it works the same way. It's an easy technique you just have to keep it pinched while tying it in.

Nicely tied jig. Thanks for posting the pic.

Actually I miss spoke, my tool is not a tooth pick, but is a kitchen match I cut the head off of.

Also troutingintas if you know how to rope dub that body you can get a segmented body even without the rib. It's very cool way to tie flies and jigs. I just don't do enough of it which is a shame and I have to put in some time getting better wt that.

Here is a jig my fried I learned from tied when he was making me some samples of ideas for rope dub tying.
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC06248.jpg

Fatman, the link didn't appear on your post! At least it didn't show up on my pc.

Skip, I'm not sure what the 'rope dubbing' techniqie is. Is there a link to a step by step?

A picture paints a thousand words so I put a step-by-step together showing how to make one of my hackle wings.

Tie in a large rooster hackle, not at tip but a distance from tip where the barbs are the desired length. Tie in so that when wound, the concave side is facing back.
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j308/trouting/HW1.jpg

Wind as hackle 4 or 5 turns, tie in hackle and cutting off excess
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j308/trouting/HW2.jpg

Stroke all the fibres upwards
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j308/trouting/HW3.jpg

Take three turns of tying thread around the up-held hackle barbs forming kind of a pony tail
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j308/trouting/HW4.jpg

Wind the tying thread down the hook, locking the wing into position
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j308/trouting/HW5.jpg

Ok, lets try this again Royal Coachman Wet Fly Tying Video - Adventures in Fly Tying with Fly Fish Ohio

troutingintas it was a DVD I bought from Don Ordes as he is the master of this technique and there are so many different things to it a step by step wouldn't tell the entire story. It's totally amazing stuff and all the dubbing is done off the back of the hook and where most dubbing is done by twisting the thread, this method is done by twisting he material and not the thread so the thread is not stressed. I think some one posted a step type link one time, but it's not like having the DVD. I am holding my breath for him to make the #2 DVD as I want it as soon as it's done if he does. One of the really cool things is you can incorporate say a hackle into the rope so it's more protected than normal. I will give a link to his site so you can read what he says, but don't have a step by step type link.

Here it is 'Rope-dubbing with Don Ordes' DVD - The Fantasy Fly Company

I paid even moer than the regular price when I got mine and it was wort every penny to me, Just an FYI!

Fatman, the wing method shown in your link is called a 'rolled' wing. As you can see from my step-by-step the concave side of all the barbs face back so when the wing in tied down, all the barbs curve in the same direction. With a rolled wing the barbs are rolled between your fingers to form a tube or linear bunch but the natural curve is hapazard. On the plus side, the base of a rolled wing is not bulky like the base of a wing made from 4 or 5 turns of hackle.

Skip, UKFlyDressing - Dubbing Techniques

I am on my phone right now, but so much on that like I will look at it later onu computer so I can see better! Lot on there.

I wouldn't change a thing to that jig - would catch crappie in my waters no question. Very clean work and a great step-by-step, thanks for posting! Have created wings before on my own ties but usually lay a clump of feather/fur fibers down towards the front (hook eye) and then lay it back and trap it down with thread wraps. Never tried your method but will do so in the future. Favorite wing material for me is kip since it is just a little stiffer and will keep the upward shape a little better. Does depend on what look and action you want though. ;)

OT question: Have been admiring your work here for a while and must say you do some awsome work. Also interested in what style/weight jig head and hook this is? Appears to be a 2X heavy hook of some kind. Are they custom poured or are you purchasing those somewhere? Thanks for any info.

Okay just reading his beginning info the kind of dubbing rope he is using is totally different and they don't come pre made and you don't use a double thread technique on this kind I am speaking about. I love all the info on this link, but it's different than the one I linked to you above. It's a single thread method and most likely different than anything you have seen before. There has been some pro commercial tyers that thought they knew what he was doing and that it was not for serious tyers, but when they saw him do this at a show it converted any of them that watched it. Also know some guys that have been commercially tying for 50 years that thought they could do it after just seeing him at a show, but soon found out they couldn't do this from memory until they got the DVD and learned it all. Once you really know this stuff you can tie most anything a lot faster and better than any conventional tying. Just my opinion and 2 cents!