Badger Hackling

[Byron haugh]

I really like the markings on this badger neck. Anyone else like using badger?

[martinwestbeek]

Yup, got Speckled and Silver Badger. Great colors!
http://www.flylab.nl/wp-content/uplo...l-1024x881.jpg

[mr. blur]

I use it fairly regularly

[narcodog]

Yep, I have several from Collins Hackle Farm, great hackle...

[NJTroutbum]

I use badger hackle for a good number of patterns. Prefer speckled over grizzly.

[Byron haugh]

Above pic is a silver badger. Heard of several different types of badger: silver, golden, light and dark champagne, but not a "Grizzly". Where do you get it? Can you post a pic?

[NJTroutbum]

Not Grizzly badger...Speckled badger. I feel it gives an impression much like Grizzly in dry fly applications.

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[Ray Kunz]

Several years ago at the annual show in Danbury, CT I noticed a couple pro-tiers using Badger hackles.
When asked about it, the reply was that they provided a light colored hackle with the dark adding to a darker thorax.
I never heard of this before.

[Byron haugh]

Ray,
Dark tips and darkening thorax.

[Gene]

Yes I use golden badger quite a bit, Whiting and Collins. Ray golden badger has been used for many years. The Dette's tied there Green Drake and a dry fly called the Conover. I'm sure there are many more but those two are what I use it for.
Gene