CDewberry 0 Report post Posted February 4 Digging in further... The white tail is very coarse 2" long hairs. Mink? The light grey fur is luxuriously soft The thin strip is uber soft As is the triangular patch The bird beak - I recognize the feathers from some of Normand's flys...Golden Pheasant? Can I use the yellow hairs on the head (for what?) in addition to the feathers? Again, thank you Wizards! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cphubert 0 Report post Posted February 4 white tail looks to be calf tail from my perspective your correct on the golden pheasant neck the barred feathers are tippets and the thin yellow feathers are the crest feathers. hard to tell un the fur without holding for me I say the strip is muskrat or mink the middle rabbit and the bottom hares mask or fox. I would need to hold it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
niveker 0 Report post Posted February 4 Mostly agree with CP. For the strip I would lean more towards mink. The round patch, the gray underfur makes me think muskrat. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flytire 0 Report post Posted February 4 you have a golden pheasant head that contains the "yellow" crest feathers for tails and toppings for salmon and steelhead type flies it also contains the black and orange golden pheasant tippets also used on the above-mentioned flies along with trout flies there is also a calf tail upper right there is what looks like rabbit strip used for zonker type flies hard to tell what the fur is below the pheasant head the lower patch of fur looks like muskrat Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CDewberry 0 Report post Posted February 5 Many thanks to y'all! /Clayton Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
