A small, dark diamond was wrapped to form the centre of the eye.

The two-tone body was started, using bands of thread so as to achieve a zig zag or saw-edge effect where the two colours met.

The tail finishes curving once the original gap between the body and the tail is filled.

The background was then wrapped until it closed.

The image below shows the wrap after CP was applied, that's why it looks darker.  When the CP went on, the metallic outer eye buckled a little    For some reason the tension on the metallic was different to the tension on the other threads.

Good job Dave. Nice wrap, perfect match.

Regarding the tension on the tape. This is common, not only with teh tape, but as well as with metallics, and even regular threads. I'll offer my opinion, I'm not 100% sure if it's true, but it makes sense to me.

When you wrap threads over, the tension "bites" into teh previous threads. I guess when you pack, wrap over, etc, the first threads you laid down tend to lose the tension, and tehy do slide around a bit.

The CP causes teh threads to "blow up" a bit, which means it soaks into the threads, and if the tension is too loose they move. What I do is just wrap everything with a lot of tension. This seems to reduce blowing up for me.

Another reason for threads to blow up, is the whole patterns slipping. When I do the tie offs, I dread hearing teh creaking of teh pattern slipping. This happpend to me pretty bad on my Tuna wrap, I think because it was elongated so much (2x's square)

Anyhow, nice wrap, look foward to more in the future. What blank is that?

Thanks Dave....
                     That was exactly what I have been looking for.  

John - you made a backwards tail, then too small or too big of a tail? My first fish wrap was like that Made the tail backwards, then WAY too big. THen had the bottom of the wrap close up, and ended up "losing" 1/2" of the wrap becasue I botched TOS. VW spacing has taen care ofthat ever happening again, thankfully.