Using your thumb and forefinger, hold the tail material as shown.

Pinching the material, lift your thread up keeping it a bit tight.

Release the tension from the thread, bring your bobbin around to the back of the fly and pull tight so that the thread is still being pinched by your fingers. Repeat the last 3 steps, pulling down tight to finish. Release your fingers.

Make several tight wraps of thread forward. The tail should look like this, Z-Lon on the top of the hook’s shank.

Adapted from Online Fly Tying Course Part #3

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