Right then, this is by no means a master class tutorial, in fact, I forgot I was going to do this so I've just spent an hour whittling, taking photos and loading them onto Photobucket!! The work is shoddy, I make no excuses, this is not a touch on PatrickMs' tutorials!!
Are you still here? You must all be desperate! Let's get on with it then
First off, carve a bit of wood to look like this, and the pointy bit will be your fish bone. I used a sliver of wood because I'm all out of fish bones!!
Next, place the cordage you are using, it may be a split spruce root, on the shank of the hook. Hold the fish bone in place and you are ready to begin the tying up.
Take the cordage around the end of the shank and over the bone, then come back on yourself and you should be going in the opposite direction.
The cordage now goes around the back of the shank and you will be at the position you first started winding at.
Now you just go around again, following the last lay you put down.
Keep going!
More!
You basically wrap the cordage around the shank and bone. Each time it passes over the last piece of cordage, it locks itself in position.
After you have tied the bone onto the shank, wrap your cordage up the shank. Pop in a couple of half hitches and you can use all of your string to suspend the hook in the water, and you won't have to cut the line. If you used a spruce root, tidy the end away by tucking it under a turn, pulling it tight and trimming of any bits that stick out.
Job done! Sorry about the chocolate all over my hands, I'd just finished sharing a bar with my youngest girl. At least I haven't been biting my fingernails!!!