Consider using a different patch of deer hair. I tied another in olive and got the same nice flaring as above. Either the hair might make a difference, or I passed a few speed bumps on the learning curve. Guess I'll tie another in golden brown.

What size hook again?

That is a #8 3366.

The deer doe indeed make a difference. The olive flares back much better than the golden brown.

Reckon we could get them to put tracking numbers on the 4 sq in patches of deer hide? Hello, Mr. Metz. Do you have anything from hide B29-Z-23819 in mauve?

Would that it were so I expect that Chris Helm could look at the photo and sell you just the right patch of hair.

Tied around 9am of 15Aug2010:

The result a little later in the morning:






Is this a Tilapia? caught on a bead head prince nymph that I used this morning?

Nice adaptation to the "hair along the hook" theme, and the fish seem to approve.

This is so cool! This thread is turning up some deer hair innovation.

Is that a bald joke???

Nice looking fly TCarp. A producer too!

I tried using elk hair, but didn't like the flare. Got carried away when covering the white thread - turned into a solid bodied sinker. Reminds me of old school jigs.

I'm proud to be hair free

I'm proud to claim being folically challenged!!!

that is a Tilipia, good catch, they are notoriously picky eaters & mostly vegetarian (although I read that are really omnivorous)

Came up with these. I am thinking about lead wraps under the body, an underwater deer hair bug.

What I was doing was tying in fail first, stacking it on hard. Then paltering thread forward, collecting all the flared tips back forward and tying in further toward the hook eye. Holding on to body section tight so that the ends flare on hook eye side and no torque gets through to the body. Leaving enough raw, un- thread covered shank to spin on the head. Trimmed that in the manner seen in images.

I bet I could tie in rubber legs between body and head. I'm gonna work on some of this with legs at lunch tomorrow.