After reading yet another super fly description on the UK page, I find myself in a search, "locally", for peccary. Anyone have any idea on where peccary can be found? (preferably separated from the living animal, cleaned, and dried)
Blame the UK fly tyers ...
After reading yet another super fly description on the UK page, I find myself in a search, "locally", for peccary. Anyone have any idea on where peccary can be found? (preferably separated from the living animal, cleaned, and dried)
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
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Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
this what your looking for or do the British call something else Peccary? http://www.desertusa.com/magnov97/no..._collpecc.html
I would try taxidermists in the desert south west to find if they had scraps they could sell you. This site says he works on them. http://www.edwardstaxidermy.com/
Eric
Last edited by Eric-WD; 06-06-2011 at 03:49 PM.
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Miss Betty: If you put Peccary into the FAOL search the 1st entry is Al Campbells ----
where there is pix of a Peccary barb being used on a fly. If that is what you are looking for PM me & I will send you some.
Tim
Chicago Fly Fishing Outfitters sell it.
When you can arrange your affairs to go fishing, forget all the signs, homilies, advice and folklore. JUST GO.
This is a peccary ...
Not something I'd want running around my back yard!
But, they do make beautiful flies ... http://ukflydressing.proboards.com/i...ay&thread=6199
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
You do know the guys in the UK are importing the hair, don't you. The critter is an American, a real native. When proper cooked over hickory for a long period of time, taste better than chicken.
Want to hear God laugh? Tell him Your plans!!!
That's an under statement!Originally Posted by Uncle Jesse
When you can arrange your affairs to go fishing, forget all the signs, homilies, advice and folklore. JUST GO.
Eric had a good idea, I would call a local taxidermist or check with your friends at BPS and see if they don't know someone locally who may have mounted a pig. It's not that fair from KS to TX. I vaguely remember my granddad showing us some javelinas on my first trip to the LA-TX border back around 1950 or so.
Want to hear God laugh? Tell him Your plans!!!
Betty, You can wait til Trav and Ladyfisher go back to Tucson this fall and have them watch for roadkill for you. Jim
I'm either going to, coming from or thinking about fishing. Jim
Betty,
Just so you know, the Peccary or Javalena, is an animal found in the sw US. I've been using the hairs for years and toyed with the idea of marketing the hair under the name of 'DST Quills'. That stands for 'Dyed, Specially Treated'. In fact, several years ago I offered samples to the fly tying community here on FAOL and elsewhere. About 50 tyers tried the material and the feedback was excellent. However, I did not follow-up and try to market the material. You can see some of the flies I've tied using these quills on this page:
http://www.danica.com/flytier/apodell/apodell.htm
If you'd like some, send me a PM with snail mail info.
Allan
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