Quote Originally Posted by Eight Thumbs View Post
Hi Skip,

I hate to waste any material when I'm fly tying. I think this most come from those early childhood days of desperately searching the house for materials and never having enough stuff to tie flies with in the first place. The only really effective use I've found for recycled bucktail is beetle backs humpty style. Tie a pretty good of used bucktail on to the top of the hook shank with the excess hanging over the bend of the hook. Tie it down well. Bend the excess back toward the eye and tie it down and trim it like you would an Elk Hair Caddis. It makes a simple, effective fly but I'm not sure how jig colors are going to match beetle colors. Good luck. 8T
Well these are mostly white and I thought about getting back at learning spinning better or maybe some kind of wing. I like your idea though for sure.
I cut my neck hackle using the tip for part of the tail on my jigs and then I cut the rest of it every 14" or so and use the little V's so stack on top of the tip and then squeeze them all together and tie that in for my tail. Love the tip feather and then the spike hair looking feathers from the V combined. I even save the rest of the feather as I think something good will come of them too so I save most every piece to use again too.

JeffHamm I like tat idea as well and as long as this stuff is I just figure something could be used some way.

Thanks guys,

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