With winter well underway, our hands can endure some serious battering from the cold weather. As a nurse who has been avidly fly fishing through this winter, my hands will snag onto anything soft. It was a long time bumbling blunder with me trying to make good dubbing noodles with fly tying. Dubbing noodles often unraveled, or snagged on my dry fingertips.
I tried the suggestions from licking my fingertips, to applications of dubbing waxes. It wasn’t until one evening I sat at my fly tying corner applying O’Keeffe’s Working Hands hand cream before fly tying. My hands felt revitalized, not oily, and a feel of tackiness I knew would be helpful with my fly tying.
I was astonished to find myself creating some beautiful noodles! It is the application of O’Keeffe’s Working Hands hand cream on my hands, and a generous amount on my cracked fingertips that was my answer! I use different hand creams to try to help heal my cracked hands, only to find myself returning back to this particular hand cream before fly tying.
Apply a generous amount on hands and particularly you finger tips and rub in well before tying. Place dubbing onto thread, pinch tight, and twist dubbing on your thread. I am simply amazed each time how easy and beautiful dubbing noodles come out. Happy fly tying to all!
