Double Half-hitch with your bobbin

[afishinado]

Never saw this tip before.

Very clever and easy to do.

 

[DaveS]

I find this particularly helpful on smaller flies. Also keeps stray hackles from finding a home in an otherwise neat head.

 

[RLeep2]

That's interesting.. I've been tying since 1963 and never learned to whip finish. This is George Herter's fault. His instructions for whip finishing were completely indecipherable, so I gave up and simply half hitch everything. I have a fly come unraveled every now and then, but not nearly as often as I probably deserve for having never mastered the whip finish.

Anyway, I do a bobbin-less variant of the video trick/method sometimes on larger flies. I simply make the first half hitch loop on the hook shank and then trap it with thread tension and then loop it around manually another time or two.

I might try and learn this thing with the bobbin, but I'm not sure I have another 57 years to get it right...

 

[Steeltrap]

Or maybe just do two half hitches?

 

[shakey]

interesting that he thinks his bobbin holder is the bobbin

 

[poopdeck]

That is pretty slick. Thanks for sharing.