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Wow, thanks everyone for the feedback. This really helps. It sounds like back, belly, and tail are the crucial areas for tying. There are a number of cheaper pelts missing a leg or two, or even a head, so I will pick up one of those. Tidewater, thanks especially for all the detail; to a beginner, that's gold. Another of your responses came through my regular email via the site and I responded to that one before checking here. So, please ignore the redundancy. I'm still trying to figure out the navigation here, especially as this is the first forum I've ever joined. By the way, is "Baitfisher" a tag all newbies here get? I sure didn't type that in at any point! Admittedly, my daughter did hook a heck of a catfish last summer on a worm we dug up in the garden... Thanks again all. It's great to be sharing this addiction. David

Hi, I'm new to the forum and just beginning to tie. I'm planning on tying a few Foxee Red Clousers and am looking at pelts on the Moscow Hide and Fur website. There is quite a range of quality and, of course, price. The cheaper pelts typically are missing some areas. Besides the belly fur for the FRC, what parts should be intact for future warm water and trout flies? To ask it another way, what parts could the pelt be missing without affecting future tying? Knowing this would help save quite a bit of money. Thanks for the response(s) and for a great site!