who does deer hair streamers and flys anymore?

[phg 0]

"buck"tail is my all-time favorite material for .... bucktail flies. The old traditionalist in me somewhere learned that the term "streamer" applies only to feather-winged flies. I'm sure that's not written in stone. I love tying and fishing bucktails.

 

And deer-hair is a never-ending source of fun and expression.

Growing up, I heard of bucktail streamers and streamers. Maybe it was a regional thing. I do have a problem with calling a muddler a streamer, though. It has turkey quill slip wings. In my book, that makes it a wet fly.

[jacktjl 0]

Still like to tie with deer hair and most likely always will.

[FrequentTyer 0]

I just yesterday tied a set of Mickey Finns and Black nose dace, both classic bucktail patterns. It is a fantastic and relatively inexpensive material, and those flies catch an awful lot of fish.

[utyer 0]

I started tying with deer hair, and buck tails. NEVER have stopped. Most of my tying has been for trout, and most of my dry flies have always been tied with deer hair wings. I have tied thousands of deer hair streamers, and "wet" flies over the years, and now I am tying deer hair streamers for bass. I tie deer hair beetles, ants and crickets. I tie bullet head deer hair frogs. Lately, I have been tying deer hair spiders.

[squire123 0]

I like bucktail, it's versitle and a natural product. With the exception of ribbing material all my tying stuff is natural fur, feather or hair.

[tidewaterfly 0]

Some of these are old pictures, but this is what I like doing with bucktail & deerhair!

 

Clousers, of course!

 

Small deer hair dry flies, for bass!

 

Large Dry flies, also used for bass!

 

 

An assortment of Deer hair topwaters!

 

Dalhbergs!

 

Teaser/flies! This one is bear over bucktail.

 

Fox squirrel over bucktail!

 

Simple bucktails, 2 color, which I use for both bass & striped bass.

 

Bucktail tail on bigger poppers!

 

Big, Striper size Clousers!

 

Finally, jigs!

 

 

 

[deeky 0]

Bucktail? Who ties bucktail anymore?!?

 

Oh wait......

 

I haven't done much of any tying in the last quite a few months. But I'm coming back tying mostly bucktails (and a few synthetic hair flies). Love the simple elegance. And everything I tie will be fished at some point, so yes they still work.

 

Here's a little sample of what's coming out - mostly bucktail with a few squirrel tail thrown in. Size 8.

 

 

And here are a few in size 2.

 

 

Not great pics, but if you want a closer look at something, let me know.

 

Deeky

[bigpikeflies 0]

I should buy stock in a deer tail company.

I can go through 3/4 a day when filling big fly orders.

[TheCream 0]

No need to feer the deer.

 

I use spun/stacked deer hair for about everything. Streamer heads, sliders, poppers, hoppers, etc...

[Gene L 0]

Clousers are a very effective pattern using buck tails. Materials are cheap and they're extremely effective if tied sparse. I don't like spinning deer hair, though. It's not that difficult to do, it's just that you can do the job easier (IMO) with other materials that catch fish equally well.

 

The first fish I caught on my own fly was a Muddler. I just don't like tying them.

[Phish 0]

Its a main staple in my boxes when I fish. Although synthetic like EP is more durable but there is a thing about naturals materials catching more so. I don't even waste my time on all these new hyped up styles out now since I know there is no way they will out fish real hair again. When I need a bigger profile i go to Yak hair and that stuff is truly amazingly durable to toothy critters.

[Guest]

Been using craft fur a lot for streamers dubbed around around lead eyes and also for tails but 2 of my favorites are a deer headed sculpin and d-rib cdad. The same strands of deer hair make the anntenna thru to the flared/trimmed tails on da Cdad. The sculpin's got Gadwall flanks, black osterich, w/floss, tinsel bodies, and gotta have the eyes...This is deer hair, not bucktail youse guys...Lead wire underneath and kinda sparse to get'em down.

Nice brown w/sculpin...

Nice bo on da cdad...

[mybadhabit 0]

I can have some real fun spinning hair, it can look good or bad but spinning isn't really that hard, and it works great.

 

Blane

[djtrout 0]

I love spinning hair, it's relaxing. I also enjoy getting better at it, feels like a true art form.

sculpin below, work in progress but I'm 90% there, we'll see how it fishes. tail is sparse by design, but I'm thinking it's a bit too sparse.

I've attached a pic file to this post, but I don't seem to know how to paste in the picture like the others in the thread. I'll ask admin folks how to do this unless one of you kind folks can give me a pointer.

[sniperfreak223 0]

As a primarily warm-water/saltwater fly fisherman, I still use a lot of deer hair and bucktail. For general baitfish imitations, there are few materials better than bucktail. Although foam poppers/divers are simpler and faster to tie, spun deerhair sitsa little lower in the surface film and has a softer "pop" to it...and don't get me started on muskie flies...