TYPES OF HEAD CEMENT, GLUES, ETC...

ANGRYINCHER · Veteran Member

TYPES OF HEAD CEMENT, GLUES, ETC...

Packrat · Senior Member

I always do it the same way you described, never used any cement for san juans.

ANGRYINCHER · Veteran Member

Yeah, I was looking at some other pictures on the web and might just sparsely spiral wrap the thread all the way up to the final tie-off point. I thought about doing this before, but thought it might make the worm body look smaller. Then I saw the pics...not bad. JW

SK60 · Senior Member

A light coat of superglue on the top of the shank works, but you have to work quickly and get the chenille positioned where you want it the first time. The glue dries dull, so you want it just on the underside. Tie in as usual. Andy Burk has an article in the Feb 2008 California Fly FIsher magazine. He uses superglue extensively in his flies (as well as head cement)-he often coats the thread to finish the head tie off, instead of a whip finish knot, he wraps the glue coated thread and trims the tag. I can attest that it makes a durable "knot". I have used it to attach small pieces of tinsel or antron when adding wings to size 22 and 24 hooks and to secure egg patterns on the shank.

cole · Senior Member

You can use red wire underbodies for better sinkage too.� Wrap the wire over the chenille at three different points and it won't slip on you.

dtp916 · Senior Member

I tie those guys a lot and never have I had a problem.

3 wraps on the tail of chenille

Spiral thread forward

5 wraps on chenille in a line at the 75% mark for segmentation

Few more wraps around shank of hook

1 wrap right behind the eye, used to keep chenille over the eye of hook.

Whip finish.�

JT · Senior Member

I can vouch for dtp916's flies.� I've never had any problems with them.� In fact, the only fish I've caught on San Juan Worms were on ones that he tied.

-- Edited by JT at 21:22, 2008-02-24

ANGRYINCHER · Veteran Member

Thanks for the good ideas. JW