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As a sideline, you will know that John Shewey in his book on
spey and dee flies notes that a good way to make a very passable "blue heron"
type salmon fly, is to first spray marabou with hair spray, brush it with a
tooth brush and the mini fluff stuff comes off on the brush..Then you tie
with the marabou feather..doesn't seem to hurt the feather at all and makes a
great substitute when I've used it. So I don't think hair spray will hurt the
flies at all. On the other hand, I have many shadow box flies mounted and
hung..all specialty flies from Bas Vershoor, and they have not had any sign of
moth infestation for the many years that I've had them. They are framed with a
plain brown acid free paper behind them and mounted with a wire placed around
the hook, to form a mounting peg, before the fly is ever tied.
Joyce
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