John, I sometimes tie mine with a sparse wrap on the body and use the fluffy part of the hackle to make a collar wrap at the front. I do wrap the hackle flat for the palmer part and on edge for the collar part. Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When you guys tie woolly buggers, do you make the palmered hackle thick or sparse, >hen hackle or rooster? Just curious. I usually tie mine up with two hen hackles, I >like them bushy like that, but I awas wondering if I would have even better luck >fishing them sparse. I once tied some without a palmered body, just one hen hackle >as a collar. Out fished most of my other ones. But I have not really fished that >pattern enough to test it out right. > > Let me know > JOhn
