How to Palmer Woolly Bugger Hackle

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Summary: Palmering the woolly bugger's hackle forward. Learn how to go fly fishing with a woolly bugger fly in this free video on fly tying.

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How to Palmer Woolly Bugger Hackle

The next step is to palmer our hackle forward to the eye of the hook. And I'm going to use my hackle pliers here. You don't have to use the hackle pliers, you can just grab it with your fingers and do it but hackle pliers are nice because you can kind of stick your finger through that loop there and just hang on to it that way. And once again, I can either just wrap it forward like so if I didn't have a rotary vise and a bobbin cradle, but since I do, I'm going to go ahead and swing my bobbin cradle forward here, flip my thread over into the cradle, and then I'm just going to use the rotary feature of the vise to spin the hook, hold in the hackle, just bring it forward to the front of the hook. Okay, and I'm going to tie it off, just like I did with my schlemiel. Hold that hackle out to the side, make a couple of wraps over it with the thread, maybe three wraps just too kind of capture it. Then I'm going to let my thread hang, use my pliers, cut it nice and close, but don't cut the thread. Alright, and now just grab that hackle, kind of pull it back out of the way, and then do a few nice, solid, tight wraps to capture the stem of the feather.