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If you are using Buck'tail' for these jigs, and what you have left over is the butt section of the bucktail, then it won't work well for spinning.

Deer 'body' hair is what is used for spinning/flaring and then trimming into bass bugs and such. Deer body hair is hollow, and when compressed it will flair out from the point of compression. Tail hair doesn't do that (some areas down near where the tail attaches to the body will flare, but not well).

Use your bucktail butts for shellbacks, spider bodies, underwings, crawdad pinchers/mouthparts, and legs on nymphs and hoppers, that sort of thing. It can make good bouyant underbodies as well.

Probably lots of other things you'll figure out if you give it some time and thought.

White bucktail takes Sharpie type markers well, so you can shade/color it as you wish after you tie the fly.

Buddy