Creating a whip finish with a rotary whip finish tool by Peter Gathercole. The whip finish is the most secure way of finishing a trout fly or salmon fly. Using a whip finish tool is the easiest way to make a whip finish.
I've been whip finishing flies for a while now, had I found your channel months ago I would have learned that I was doing it wrong from the beginning. Of all the instructional videos I have watched on materelli style whip finishers, no one else breaks it down so clearly or concisely. To you good sir, I say thank you!
For over a year as beginner i made always the knot with my hands coz i found no other videos that explains it so slow and easy, thanks bro! I'm going to try it out right away👍
Thornapple Fishing Outdoors I mean you still need some Sort of glue or cement to finish the fly. The threads wouldn’t last long at all unlesss it’s properly cemented
The Thumbs down people give no explanation so it must be good. Just got mine today to looking forward to trying it out. Really interested in any negatives about this method though. Nice explanation by the way 👍
I learned in a class about six years ago. Never had the chance to use it a lot due to mom getting sick. I do remember though that it was so easy to do. I'm getting back into tying (learning) and will be using this again. I'm going to be practicing this as my review to tying. It's so important when finishing off the fly.
Thanks for sharing this!! I've tried two other whip finishers and just can't get the hang of them, even after watching great RU-vid tutorials on how to use them. No fault of the presenters though!! I just couldn't get them to work. This looks like the simplest and most effective finisher out there. Cheers!! :)
Thank you sincerely for the simplest explanation ive ever seen! Probably cos you're British! Americans always complicate everything, cos they can't stop rambling!!
im self teaching myself to tie and mostlyivebeen able to skate on creativity, but i wasnt happywith the ugly finish knots i was making, thanks for making this video short and simple!
Thank you for showing this, i got that exact tieoff tool as a present recently and didn't know how to properly use it (I'm used to an older version that im borrowing, it's very bendy and has a spring like part to it)
Great video. Hope you're in good health. I see it's been 10 years since you've posted your 1st video. Wish you had more available because your step by step process was great and easy to follow.
Seems perfect to me…maybe try more and be patient with yourself. Hard for me too with my first SEVERAL flies. If you think that will not work be comfortable in the fact you are an idiot at it and try something else, like buying the flies and Tenkara fishing….
Hi many thanks for sharing amazing content I subbed you do you have any advice on buying a fly tying kit as I am interested in tying my own flies. Many thanks.clive.
The best way and quickest is to use your right and and two fingers! Watch someone who knows, and you don't need ANY hardware like this. The single hand method is, was, and will be used by pro fly tiers. It is simple, accurate, and incredibly simple. Check out and old timer, or someone who knows how to do it. As far as this whip finisher, it's ok, but not needed. Who taught me? Al Brewster, Art Flick, Joe Bates. Is that good enough for you experts out there?
So you’ve got a hook with some thread tied on it… is this a start to something? Does it go somewhere like when we get to the part when I put feathers on the thing?
You can also use a looped piece of thread, bind over that, and pull the end through. I'm not a fan of extras in my tying. Scissors, a good Regal vise, and decent ingredients. Whip Finishers? Not really a thing most people would need if they took a five minute lesson. IMHO
Funnily enough Craig I don't use a tool myself as I tend to mislay them. In my experience many novice tyers prefer to learn the technique with a tool and once you realise the process of forming a running loop it it's easy to switch. Actually I'm quite an old timer myself having been tying flies for more than fifty years.
Ouch. Whip finish should instead be tied forward from the back of the hook towards the eye. To see why, scale up with small diameter rope/string on a broom handle ... s/b readily apparent why. This tutorial, well intentioned, promoting a bad habit?
I've probably executed a whip finish in excess of 20,000 times, probably twice that. Tying thread is so fine that for practical purposes it's irrelevant. Plus, when you have have finished a fly and covered the base of a wing or collar hackle the thread is invariably close to the eye.
