Lightweight rod/line needed

[Fishtales]

You might be interested in this Fred.

http://www.members.tripod.com/Invictaflies/id203.htm

[Wildfisher]

Sandy, this is exactly the way I have tied small parachutes. Using poly yarn to  from the wing and the post, putting a small drop of super-glue at the base of the wing at the point I am gong to wind the hackle round, this makes a solid post. I think I got  the tip out of T+S magazine.

[breac]

 I was interested in your parchute flies Sandy, the first time i learned to
tie these it was by using the thick end of the hackle as the post, tied in vertically and then winding the  hackle round that, I cant remember where I read that but it may have been in one of Bill Davies books, but I still ddo them that way when I use them Breac

[Fishtales]

I haven't come across that method before. I have seen it done by using the cut off end of the stock, splitting it part way up and splaying out the ends along the shank and tying it in that way, then tying in the rest of the hackle seperately. Everybody has a favourite way of doing things and if it works keep doing it and if it doesn't try something else till you find the way that suits, even invent your own if that is what it takes, how else would fly tying progress if no one tryed it first