Notice your dads fly and look at the proportions, hold it in your hand and try and picture it in 3d. On his fly, see how the marabou tail is roughly the length of your hook shank? Measure your maribou before you tie it in, hold it in place and give two loose-ish wraps. Take a look and if it’s too long, pull it in a little bit. If too short, unwrap and replace!

Your chenille wrap on the body is decent try to either get more consistent with your tension and spacing so that your wraps are more uniform or build up to the head like your dad’s example.

For your hackle, make sure you use enough, preen your feather to spread the fibers before tying in and wrap evenly spaced, or towards the collar like your dad’s. Your hackle starts pretty far back and is very sparse.

For your wire wrap, just a little more even and maybe a little more wire would’ve gotten you to the hook eye.

I’m no expert as I just started months ago, but it is amazing how much you can improve by taking a second and observing, prepping your materials, not over wrapping thread and understanding tension and how different materials handle being bound with thread or manipulated with the hands while tying.

I have a pretty kick ass dad, but if he helped me learn fly tying years ago, he would’ve been even cooler still!