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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:15 am • # 1 
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I'll admit that I am a sucker for new ,and strange tying materials.

Just the other day, I got some kangaroo fur off the net, and it tied nice nymphs.

Another time I got some elephant hair from a day at the zoo with the kids; nymph legs

I also have a friend who uses natural plant seeds for making flies.

So, what is the wierdest material you have used to tye flies with?

Take care,
chris


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:22 am • # 2 
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I've used cat fur for dubbing before. Just brushing a cat gives one a lifetime of dubbing in short order.

J.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:23 pm • # 3 
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I have used those worm rattles, the ones with the shot in the plastic tube. Lash these to the shank of the hook with mono and epoxy. Add streamer hair and you have a glass minnow that rattles. Don


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:42 pm • # 4 
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I've used pieces of match stick for making tiny poppers. Just cut them to the desired length, add hair or feathers to the back, and rubber legs to the middle and paint. I used to tie them as small as #18.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:46 pm • # 5 
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I use Porcipine Quill for tails on my stone fly nymphs.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:36 am • # 6 
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I have some bushy tail possum fur from New Zealand. Great for dubbing.


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:14 pm • # 7 
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i used my cat's hair, he is a Bengal cat, got some nice glitter with 3 coating of short hair, which i think is even better than rabbit mask but not as brittle


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:32 am • # 8 
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Just picked up some wildebeast fur can't wait to give it a try making caddis flies.

It is suppose to have a natural blue tint.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:41 pm • # 9 
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I recently I read a post about a guy tying a fly using ear wax and navel lint. That got me to wondering what strange brews y'all have come up with in a pinch or to create something different.

Les


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:40 pm • # 10 
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...used to have a black lab ;) .....pretty fair bear hair substitute.
But the neatest I can think of off the top of my head is a little short-tailed weasel hide I've got in my tying drawer. Used to live in the shed where he did a great job on mice, but my cat got him (I've no idea how, since I know they can drive off an adult fox) and I skinned him. He was in winter colour phase, and he was, as the expression goes, as white as a winter weasel. I use his underfur for white wulffs and such. I've got some snowshoe hare fur and some other dubbings, but none seems as brilliantly white.
brent


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:25 pm • # 11 
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I know it's not weird....But a friend of mine had a Moose get trapped in his barn....The wildlife folks helped him get it out and he sent me some Moose hair......makes great antennas and bushed-out makes a good tail. I am still experimenting with it............Don in SC


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:44 pm • # 12 
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Foam earplugs for popper bodies. They worked OK, not great.


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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:30 pm • # 13 
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I thought about buying some Hamsters & shaving them JJ Hahahaha :)

<---------------------I have a Furminator & a white Lab who Loves to donate to my flies......

<---------------------He Loves that Furminator :)


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 4:09 am • # 14 
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i have used dog fur


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 7:48 am • # 15 
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smooth52 wrote:
i have used dog fur


:lol You know, when I first read that, I read 'used' as an adjective instead of a verb. (not a criticism of the wording of your post, but rather my reading comprehension. Its early, the coffee has not taken effect, and I may be sitting too close to the wood fire).

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 8:52 am • # 16 
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I have a ringtail cat tail from one that I shot with my bow. Makes good streamers


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:42 am • # 17 
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I have used my wife's hair for a soft hackle fly once. Feels weird though, to think her hair is catching a fish, only did it once. It does make a nice soft hackle.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:47 am • # 18 
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Linecaster: one of our provincial fish biologists took that one step further :eek However, I shall refrain from describing it here, especially with folks like Cliff tuning in, what with his delicate sensibilities and being so easily offended and all. :lol
brent


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 2:58 pm • # 19 
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Do tell, what step did he take?
Cliff would use catfish whiskers for rubber legs.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 3:14 pm • # 20 
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"I have used my wife's hair for a soft hackle fly once. Feels weird though, to think her hair is catching a fish, only did it once.
It does make a nice soft hackle."

I have a bag of my wife's also. I haven't tied with it yet, though.


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