How do I tie a bead head zebra midge for fly fishing?
I know all the materials, but my thread keeps coming undone after i tie it of, why does this keep happening to me!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Thanks:)
I'm unclear about where/when your thread is coming undone. Do you mean it's coming undone when you first start out? Or sometime during the tying process? Or after it's all done?
First thing, you've got to learn the art of "starting" your thread. This takes some getting used to, but once you get it, you'll never have another problem with it. Basically, you wind some thread around the hook, then wind the thread over the start point. Have you considered watching videos to learn this stuff? Here's a YouTube video that shows the basics of starting thread. It's not a great video, but watch the thread and you'll hopefully understand.
If your thread is unwinding while you're tying the fly, it's probably a matter of tension. In fly fishing and fly tying, tension is everything. If you release tension while you've got a fish on, the fish gets away. If you release tension while your tying a fly, the thread will come undone and materials will drop off. You've got to keep tension on that thread, either with your hand (by keeping it taut) or with the weight of the bobbin hanging off the hook. It's sometimes helpful to throw a half-hitch knot into your thread while you're working. This will make it so that if you do accidentally release tension on your thread, things will only unwind to that knot. You can tie a half hitch anywhere along the way, and you can use it to finish a fly. Here's another YouTube video that shows how to do it:
If your fly is coming apart after you're done with it, that means you're not finishing it properly. You have to finish every fly with some form of lashing as the final step. Most people use a whip finish tool for this. The whip finish lashes the loose end of the thread under several (sometimes 10 or more) windings of thread at or near the hook eye. This secures the thread to itself and it will seldom if ever come apart if you do it right. You can also tie whip finishes with your fingers. Again, to YouTube for the visual:
Note -- most people use head cement at the end of the fly. This further locks down the material and keeps it from unwinding.
The Zebra Midge is one of the best winter nymphs that I know of. It's super simple to tie, can be tied in a wide variety of colors, styles, and sizes, and it's effective. I also happen to think they're cool-looking. It's basically just a bead head, an "ice cream cone" of thread, and a wire body. You can add an optional thorax with dubbing or peacock herl. YouTube:
And by the way -- THANKS for asking a couple questions about fly fishing. The only thing slower than the fishing right now is the Fishing section here in Y!A...
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ive got 4 danios however i did have 5 but 1 died this morning i think this was due to getting nipped by the other 4 fish has i had a lot of nip bites on it! Is there anyway to stop the fish from nipping each other?
if i put other fish wuld they nip them to?
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