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FLY TYING
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10/11/19 10:27 AM
10/11/19 10:27 AM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 187
West, TN
chris_tn
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West, TN
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Anyone use coon and squirrel tails for tying jigs? What's your method of preserving and removal from the tail?
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Re: FLY TYING
[Re: chris_tn]
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10/11/19 10:29 AM
10/11/19 10:29 AM
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Chambers, NE
conibearguy
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Anyone use coon and squirrel tails for tying jigs? What's your method of preserving and removal from the tail? I do. I actually buy them. Cut the tail of at the butt and borax the fleshy part and let it sit straight for a month to dry. Do NOT freeze.
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Re: FLY TYING
[Re: chris_tn]
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10/11/19 10:34 AM
10/11/19 10:34 AM
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West, TN
chris_tn
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Do you just cut the hair off close as you can to the hyde? Do you have a preferred method for dying them?
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Re: FLY TYING
[Re: chris_tn]
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10/11/19 10:35 AM
10/11/19 10:35 AM
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SE WI
DuxDawg
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+3 on scrape & borax.
Squirrel, rabbit, groundhog and any game bird were always in demand among local fly tiers. Scraps from deer and beaver too.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
"We are fast approaching... rule by brute force."
-Ayn Rand
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Re: FLY TYING
[Re: chris_tn]
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10/11/19 10:39 AM
10/11/19 10:39 AM
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Chambers, NE
conibearguy
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Do you just cut the hair off close as you can to the hyde? Do you have a preferred method for dying them? Any place away from flies. Somewhere why it stays fairly dry. Maybe a closet.
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Re: FLY TYING
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10/11/19 11:28 AM
10/11/19 11:28 AM
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Iowa
coydog2
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My fur buyer, buy the Squirrel and wood chuck skins with the tail on.For the Squirrel, just put them up like mink, but the hind feet on the belly side.I use the mink boards and for the woodchuck you keep the bone in the tail but it split to the tip with the skin spread and put borax in it and put up like coyote on coon boards.
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