Have I asked this before?

[Li'lDave 0]

I've just come into a couple of 12in by 12in pieces of moose body hair from a mate....

 

What sort of ties would you use this for?

 

The material actually looks a lot like Elk hair.....

[Jaydub 0]

My favorite use of Moose body hair is for tails on dry flies such as Wulffs and humpys. It flairs much less than deer or elk.

[rstaight 0]

I have used Moose Mane for whiskers on mouse patterns.

[Philly 0]

You can also use them for segmented bodies on dry flies.

[Li'lDave 0]

hmmm. Picture isn't great, but you get the idea. The fibres are about 1.25 inches long.

 

Thx so far..

 

 

 

 

[fishingbobnelson 0]

Bivisible Moose Recipe

Hook: Standard Dry #12

Thread: Brown 8/0 Uni-thread

Tail: Moose Body Hair

Abdomen: Brown tying thread

Body Hackle: Cree hackle (gap length)

Hackle: white or light ginger

 

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[Li'lDave 0]

sweet. ta mate

[djtrout 0]

tails, bug legs.

[Fisherboy0301 0]

Crab patterns use elk hair, tied in by the eye abd over the point on inverted patterns. Said to add a little crunch to them. I don't know lol but they work. If it's hollow enough I guess you could soon and clip it for heads, bodies, or whatever.

 

 

Try it in a dubbing loop then spin, wrap the loop and trim. That's how I make deer hair heads like spun hair outta bucktail for my streamers.

[vicrider 0]

Dave, if you can get hold of Moose Mane it is a great quill wrap hair. I tie a lot of quills and nymphs by using a white hair from mane and black from mane. Start them together, Wrap side by side and makes a great segmented look. I have a lot better luck with that on a Quill Gordon than a Peacock quill. I usually UV them but they're pretty tough as is. If you can't get ya' some of that then the suggestions above should work for your body hair.

[phg 0]

Moose body hair is just like deer body hair, and can be substituted anytime you feel like. Like you, I have a largish patch of moose body hair, that I got from a taxidermist. Because of it's dark color, I find it to be of limited use. It would make a pretty good muddler minnow head, and might be OK for a bullet head hopper, or a Letort cricket. You just need to look around to see where dark brown deer body hair will work.