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    Only advice per say from me is don't throw the first or 1000th try out. Keep em all. My biggest, ugliest, bulkiest work of pure terror caught the biggest steelhead I've gotten to date. My buggiest, looked like it got scraped off a windshield bug jig caught more than my nicest ties ever have.
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    Quote Originally Posted by speedyb_tx View Post
    The Whipping tool got the best of me... so ended up with too much thread at the base of the neck.
    I tried the experiment of twisting two chenilles together, the rolling on the shank. Did someone say "Deep End" ?
    The jig looks good. There’s an art to whip finishing I see many struggle with. The trick is to carefully wrap the thread around the head but let the thread on each wrap slide off the head in between the head and chenille. Don’t wrap the thread over the chenille. I’ll try to do a video on it later today of what I’m trying to explain.
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    It certainly looks better than my second jig. The more you make the easier it becomes. When I first started tying I finished my ties with several half hitches before trying with whip finisher. I liked the half hitches better so stuck with that.

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    Another way to do the tail is with v's cut from the feather. This is illustrated up in the stickies (section above topics) as well on YouTube by SK's Fishing Adventures. Both done excellently...
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    Quote Originally Posted by speedyb_tx View Post
    2nd Attempt.
    It is going to take a while!
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    Looks pretty good to me for first attempt.

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    I like it, keep on tying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrNip View Post
    The jig looks good. There’s an art to whip finishing I see many struggle with. The trick is to carefully wrap the thread around the head but let the thread on each wrap slide off the head in between the head and chenille. Don’t wrap the thread over the chenille. I’ll try to do a video on it later today of what I’m trying to explain.

    Using a whip finishing tool was the hardest part of learning how to tie jigs. I can now do it with my eyes close but I struggled with it in the beginning. Like you stated let the thread slide down the head and wedge itself between the head and the chenille. Once you make your wraps give the thread a snug pull and you will feel the thread seat itself before making that final whip finish knot.
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    Great start...think it will catch crappies.
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    It would help if I were to correctly spell "Learning". haha

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