Betty,

Depending on which of the colors your most concerned with keeping the most of...You can either slit the hide up the tail...which would be the easiest way or take the hard route and try useing a pair of pliers to strip the hide down the tail..very hard to achive after the tail has been removed from the animal..This is best done while skinning the animal...no matter the animal.I use the inside of the handles themselves..that way you get a good grip and still keep a smooth slideing surface...a little dextarity is required...I debone all of my tails during the skinning opperations..I hunt mostly because I tye ...lol...and the tablefare is'nt bad either

Oh yeah..the skull cap...do mean the removal of the hide...or the skull...for hide..all I can say is pliers and knife with some muscle...skull...Bone saw...Goodluck Miss Betty !

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"I've often wondered why it is that so many anglers spend so much money on,and pay so much attention to.the details on the wrong end of the fly line.If they took as much care in selecting or tying their flies as they did in the selection of the reel and rod,They might be able to gain the real extra edge that makes it possible to fool a fish that has,in fact,seen it all before" A.K.Best

Everyone wants to excel in this sport but at the same time we let traditionalists place restrictions on our tactics, methods, and ideas. I always assumed that fly fishing was a sport that allowed imagination, creation, adaptation, investigation, dedication, education, revelation? : Fox Statler, On Spinners (Not the dainty Dry Fly kind) "Spinner'd Minner Fly"

"Wish ya great fishing"

Bill



[This message has been edited by billknepp (edited 26 November 2005).]

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