Quote Originally Posted by Byron haugh View Post
How about we ask Craig Mathews which hair is the best for these flies???
I am pretty sure he would recommend this http://www.blue-ribbon-flies.com/sho...deer_hair_2x3/ which I assume is what you used to tie that beautiful example.

I think the whole thing about black tips is just that the dark hair tends to be more solid and flairs less. So if you have no black tips or black tips that are short enough so you are not tying in near the black part, it should flair well. I would look for fine hair with very short black tips or no black tips.