Tying a flying-treble mount
Step 1
Clamp a treble hook into the vice: try and position the hook to have the
eye vertically and with two points toward the bottom.
Catch on the thread, any colour will do, and tie it down with a couple of
trapping wraps.
Trim the tag-end.
Step 2
Offer up your chosen link material. I've used an length of doubled 13lb
Rio Powerflex, although most nylons, braid, or even flexible trace wire
could be used. Pass one end through the eye of the hook.
Trap the link against the hookshank with a couple of turns of thread and
give if a wipe of superglue. Continue whipping the link to the hookshank
until you reach the point level with the hookpoint.
Step 3
Take the end of the link and pass it around the back of the treble hook.
Lay the link along the hookshank and trap it in position with the thread.
Feed the end through the eye from the opposite side to the other tag end
of the link.
Working forwards, bind the link to the hookshank.
Tie off with a whip-finish and give the binding a coat of superglue. Allow
to dry.
Step 4
Clamp your chosen hook in the vice and catch on the thread.
Run the thread down to the end of the hookshank.
Now take hold of the previously tied treble hook link and tie down with
a couple of turns of thread. The treble hook should be positioned with the
eye vertically and with two of the points at the underside. Lie the link
material straight along the top of the shank.
Step 5
Wind the thread forward - in tight, close turns - until it's in the position
shown.
Snip off one of the strands of link material and pass the remainding strand
through the eye of the single hook.
Give the binding a coat of superglue.
Step 6
Pull the end off the link material backwards, along the underside of the
hook, and tie down with a couple trapping wraps.
Continue to hold the link taut against the hookshank and bind it to the
underside in a rearward direction.
Step 7
Stop
a short distance from the end of the orginal thread wraps and trim the end
of the link material.
Apply another coat of superglue to the body and then wrap backwards to the
point where you started.
Step 8
At
this point there are two options:
continue tying the fly as normal,
or,
wind the thread back to the hook-eye; whip-finish the fly neatly; add a
drop of varnish to the head.
You should have something similar to the fly shown opposite.