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Originally Posted by Red Bullets
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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And then you would have bags of hair pointing in all directions. Might be alright for dubbing, but a nightmare to try and get nicely oriented hair for tails, legs, antennae and wing-cases. Keep your materials properly stored, every year of so toss a mothball into the drawer and you will never have a problem with bugs.