A person could also experiment a bit... Take a small piece of fleshed hide with good "fly suitable" hair and soak it for three or four days in water with wood ashes in the water. When the hairs will pull out easily...while wet, nail the hide to a board and hand pull the hairs. Then the hair comes out of the hide with the hair root intact. Dry the hairs and keep just the hairs for tying flies. Then you don't have to preserve a hide or worry about bugs. Whole tail hairs can be long enough to make nice streamers.
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This country was started by voyagers whose young lives were swept away by the currents of the rivers for ten cents a day... just for the vanity of the European's beaver hats. ~ Red Bullets
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It is when you walk alone in nature that you discover your strengths and weaknesses. ~ Red Bullets
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