Keep the hackles off when you finish the head of your flies. get a bunch of drinking straws from your favorite breakfast diner, cut some pieces - length 5 millimeters or a quarter of an inch or less. Slip one over the tube of your bobbin holder before tying on the thread. When the fly is done, pull it up over the hackle, finish the head, cut the thread, varnish and remove the guard. Slip it over the bobbin holder again, and you are ready to start all over.
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