Fly Tying the Wing of a Parachute Adams Fly

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Hi, this is Jeff Wilkins on behalf of Expert Village. The next step is we're going to take this wing and stand it upright. We've got to create something that will make it stay in that position. So, with the tying thread, I'll pull the wing back, I'll start wrapping the thread right at the base of it and the build-up of thread, which I like to envision as a cone in front of the wing, the wing material, will cause it to stand upright. And that technique will work with any material, not just this yarn, but any hair or other material you might use for that. So, we have the wing upright. The next step in tying any parachute pattern is to create a post around the wing. The way we do that, is we do those with a tying thread and I prefer looking down on top of it. I'm a right-handed tier, so we're going to go from that position, looking straight down on the fly; I'm going to go in a clockwise direction. Take the tying thread, and we'll go around the base of the wing. The thing that's important is the plane of the thread. The plane should be this, bob and tip pointing down at the table, flat plane that's in line with the hook shank, not an angle, which causes it to come off. So, you want to wrap it with steady pressure, keeping the thread on a flat plane. What we're doing is, we're creating a rigid base, that in two more steps, we're going to wrap the hackle around the base of the wing. This provides a rigid surface on top of which that can happen, so that's called posting the wing. Now, so it stays in that position, I'm going to take a little pit cement, just a little drop of it. This can be drying while we're finishing the fly. Put just a dab front, back and both sides and even up on the wing post we created. So now we have a completed wing post.

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