A simple little post. I tied my first fly today. I have a very nice Dr. Slick bobbin and used it for the first time. Halfway through tying the fly I looked down and I had a backlash on my little spool of thread. Yup, a real nest. Just like a casting reel. Seems one of the loops of thread came off the spool someplace in the middle and as I wrapped the fly it just fell off the spool over and over. The end product was a bunch of dropped loops entangled into each other.

 

So, I've got a Curado DC. I've never had a backlash with it. I wonder if they can do that with a fly tying bobbin? A DC bobbin.

What kind of thread? I'm asking because certain threads have a slit in the spool which the tag end is placed. When you pull the tag end out you have to be sure to get the entire end, if a small filament is hung on the spool lip you'll end up in the same situation. 

On 2/29/2020 at 7:04 AM, smalljaw67 said:

What kind of thread? I'm asking because certain threads have a slit in the spool which the tag end is placed. When you pull the tag end out you have to be sure to get the entire end, if a small filament is hung on the spool lip you'll end up in the same situation. 

Yes, I got that. I had the entire end. I think a loop of thread came off in the middle and then kept falling off as I was wrapping and I didn't notice till a bunch of thread was wrapped around itself.

I've tied 10,000 flies and I've honestly never had that happen.  What Smalljaw suggested has definitely happened to me.

Set your spool tension. Just like your Curado.