| This fly probably should have been tied a little sparser.
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| I wanted to wind enough hackle to really drive home
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| the visual effect of mounting the parachute on the bottom
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| side of the fly.
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| Turn the fly over in the vise and wind the hackle.
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| Remember that there is no thread left; no thread
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| to fight with the hackle. Because you wind the hackle
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| around the stiff, immovable TEFLON tubing it's easy;
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| easier than winding around a hair-wing post on the
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| top of the fly.
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| Once wound, put a drop of Krazy glue at the bottom
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| of the TEFLON cross. Wait 5 seconds and the press a
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| razor blade against the base of the tag end of the
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| hackle tip, while still pulling out and putting pressure
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| on the hackle tip. That snips off the waste hackle
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| without damaging any other hackle.
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| Now put a fingernail against the eye of the hook, to
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| stabalize it. Then, with the fingers of your other hand,
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| pull out the tubing. CA glue does not stick to TEFLON,
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| so you can resuse the tubing many times.
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| Now you have a parachute fly with the hackles on the bottom
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| of the fly. You weren't required to use a stiff wing post
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| on the top side of the fly, so you are free to make the
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| wings however you want.
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| Because the hackle is wound around a (temporarily) immovable
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| winding cross on the bottom of the fly, with the thread already
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| snipped off and gone--the hackle winding is a snap, and it
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| never seems to go wrong.
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| This fly looks as good or better than any other parachute.
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| It floats better and it's faster easier and more foolproof
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| to tie.
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Tails
Woodduck and CDC
Mount wing
TEFLON cross
Attach hackle
Add Dubbing
Done 1
Para Normal Pmd
Done 2
Size 20 Bmp Bwo
Alternate Abdomen