Polar Bear

[LP ID 66 0]

I am just curious what is your favorite substitute for Polar Bear? I used some white black bear i like. I have heard others just wondering what you guys like.

 

[netabrookie 0]

LP ID 66, I don't mean to be a wise guy but your post gave me a good laugh... white black bear hair? I have black black bear hair and brownish black bear hair but I didn't know there was white black bears.

[Christopher K 0]

LP ID 66, I don't mean to be a wise guy but your post gave me a good laugh... white black bear hair? I have black black bear hair and brownish black bear hair but I didn't know there was white black bears.

Probably bleached.

[flytyer56 0]

There are white color phase black bears!

Type in white black bears into your search engine and you'll find several links.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/08/03/138938423/black-bears-that-are-actually-white

[netabrookie 0]

Well, I have always heard people saying that you learn something new every day and NOW I have to agree with them. If one of my buddies had came up to me and said that they had just seen a white black bear before I read this I would have accused them of not being in their right mind...

[LP ID 66 0]

Haha yeah its a white patch on some black bear. It is a very small patch tho I don't have much left...

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

my favorite sub is skunk tail it is almost impossible to tell the difference but I also have PB that is over 50 years old that I use on special flies

[flytire 0]

OK back to substitutes

 

cashmere goat

 

[mvendon 0]

You didn't ask if it had to be a natural substitute. I like Poly Bear as a synthetic sub for it. You can still get the real thing legal, but it's a little pricey. John Waite on the N. Umpqua, 1-800-347-4654. He doesn't have a website. He's been selling it for many years and has PB dubbing too.

 

Regards,

Mark

[sandflyx 0]

african or casmere goat is the best.

[snag 0]

I got a pile of PB but its old really old.

[flytire 0]

A very light cream colored buck tail would work on a pinch since polar bear isn't a pure white

[LP ID 66 0]

I think all polar bear in the states is really old... Unless you smuggled it from Canada, which really doesn't sound like a bad idea, J/K. but seriously i know some of you have done it... I might have to try some skunk tail. I know a trapper who gets them for their sent glands things i guess I wonder if he will skin me one. I will buy some goat as well. I ought to go clip some off the gun shops full body mount... to bad its in a glass case...

[FlyFishin'Jam 0]

Funny i must be the only tyer who doesn't think polar bear is all that special, i have tried it and used it and was not impressed, found arctic fox mixed with a few strands of crystal flash had far more mobility and looked way better in the water. Maybe jaded as it is in every shop here on the wall.

[Flat Rock native 0]

LP ID 66, I don't mean to be a wise guy but your post gave me a good laugh... white black bear hair? I have black black bear hair and brownish black bear hair but I didn't know there was white black bears.

Probably bleached.

My granddaughter is a wise guy.

 

We were talking about her fuzzy dog when she told me the following:

 

Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear

Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair

Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy wuzzy

Was he?