I recently had the privilege of meeting a gentleman who invited me to his house to pass on some of the tying techniques he has learned over the years. This man is 88 years old and has been tying for over 70 of them.

He had a tying area and equipment we would all drool over. He tied a squirrel tail nymph that was very simple to tie. Tail was body hair and body was squirrel hair in a dubbing loop wrapped from the tail to the eye and tied off. Sweet and simple. He said if he could only take one fly, this would be it. Apparently, he has fished it over much of the US and has always done quite well with it.

Just curious, has anyone else tied a nymph similar using squirrel body hair? He did say that he only tied this nymph in gray and has never tried it using fox squirrel.