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Before the treble hook is put on the screw eye it should be wound with bucktail hair, as shown in Fig. 20. First cut your bucktail hair so that it is only slightly longer than the shank of the hook. Next, get some fly-tying thread and make a few turns with it around the hook shank near the eye. Now form three or four pinches of the bucktail hair and have them ready. Take one of the pinches of bucktail, lay it against the hook shank, and wind several turns of thread around it. Add another pinch of bucktail next to the first one and wind some thread around it. Keep doing this until the hook shank is completely covered by the bucktail. Finish off the wrapping with more turns and bind it with a whip finish or a series of half hitches. Then coat the thread wrapping with fly-tying cement or with one of the clear, quick-drying cements which come in tubes. Figure 19. Popping spin bug. Figure 20. Tail hook wound with bucktail. Figure 21. Winding bucktail hair to make wings. Figure 22. Using the front part of a plug body to make a spin bug.
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