A few months ago I found a Scud pattern that was used on Rocky Ford Creek in Eastern WA. This fly had a Deer Hair dubbed body. This Article is about dubbing with Deer Hair; http://www.westfly.com/feature/0105/feature_530.htm
Doug
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A few months ago I found a Scud pattern that was used on Rocky Ford Creek in Eastern WA. This fly had a Deer Hair dubbed body. This Article is about dubbing with Deer Hair; http://www.westfly.com/feature/0105/feature_530.htm
Doug
Good article,,,Thats How I do it.
I Have tied up some with deer hair dubbed bodies and CDC wings....Can't wait to see how great they float.. :)
Doug;
I've used this way of dubbing deer hair, for quite a while and boy, do flies ever FLOAT with this method! Not only the buoyancy of the deer hair itself but also when dubbed like this you get more air pockets and more "area" for flotation on the water's surface.
I haven't fished the scud, over at Rocky, but I have fished a lot of the #18 deer hair dubbed Elk Hair Caddis and they've been very productive, as well as float seemingly all day. I've also tied up the Casanova Caddis, which uses the deer dubbing for the body and it also works really well.
There are a lot of flies, that use conventional dubbing material, that work better it seems like to me, when switched to the deer hair dubbing.
Geesh, and now that you've brought up Rocky Ford, I've got the "wants to", to pack up and head over there for a couple of days!!?!! Fished it 5 times this past season and can't ever get tired of playing 22" Rainbows! (Unless, of course, it's playing the 24 inchers!?!
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Doug,
I haven't read that article but I'm guessing it has to do with deer hair off of the skin.
I've never read about what I'm about to say but it's a source for excellent dubbing that makes an excellent spikey dubbed body... I've used it for patterns just like a Hare's Ear. You may try if you get a chance. Deer Ear Hair. That's right. The hair inside of the deers ear is great and you can mix in some of the finer outter hair for even more spikiness. Suggest you use a dubbing loop. If you're near a place where deers are butchered, you can probably get them for nothing. Get enough of them and dye them different colors before cutting the hair from the ear.
Deezel
Deezel...do you know if that hair is hollow?
duckster,
A pure non-scientific guess - No. Based on how fine it is I don't think it's hollow.
Deezel
Adding some fiber(dubbing) can make the deer dubb a bit easier
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Man Harry, I'll bet that's a (blank) to dub!!Quote:
Originally Posted by bones
I initially thought this thread was a joke. I did!
Jeremy.
it is and I think it still is :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy
a loop is easier :-)