Folks, On this horse hair topic: An interesting pattern, and very popular locally in Idaho around the town of Mackay, is the Mackay Special. This fly, almost a compulsary pattern on the Big Lost river, is tied with horse hair and red wool. The body is semi-woven, with a palmered furnace hackle. The remaining hair folded back over the body in a down wing.
I do not have a picture of just the fly here, but this Michigan smallmouth liked it: http://www.danica.com/flytier/fish_pix/smallmo.jpg Cheers, Hans
