I never thought I would use "Wolf" fur. As soon as I can get some dye I plan on coloring some, it is a nice cream color now so it should color well.
Another thing is glass beads, never thought of it but glad I am using them now and learning more. Jimi I want to start a new topic that I have been thinking about recently. When I started tying I bought items like hackle, peacock herl, pheasant tail, dubbing you know the standard stuff. There are materials that I use now more often than not, that I would never have thought I would use. Qhat I want to do here is have folks pick two materials that they use regularly now , that they wouldnt have thought of as common items when they started. Here are my two items. My first item is moose body. I love to use moose body for tails on adams, brown drakes etc. My other item is pheasant rump feathers. I have never seen one patch of feathers have so many different types of feathers with different characteristics . I use my pheasant rumps mostly for tying jack gartsides sparrow. This was my number one bluegill fly for 4 years until it was replaced my a fly from a member of this lists creation. Just thought this might be interesting. john ridderbos
