How do you tie on the tail hook?

[Scruffy_Fly]

I have read where some steel headers lay the stinger over the eye of the hook. Tie the mono or backing line to the shank with touching wraps of thread from the bend to the eye. then Pull the stinger back towards the rear of the tying vice. Then using touching wraps tie the additional length of mono or backing line from hook eye to the bend. Thus you have two layers of the mono secured to the hook shank with two layers of thread. As Fly Goddess says the Zapagap is a good thing to add in there.

If you are using the bunny strips with the mono through the bunny strips then you would need to alter the procedure a little to accomplish the same thing.

I think the above is probably over kill but it would add an other level of confidence that the mono is not going to pull off the hook shank.
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