badger

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Just had a friend send some badger to me–looks like bristles from a shaving brush i used.

Any patterns out there that use badger?

Thanks

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ive got a golden badger neck. i cant seem to find many patterns for it, so i make my own! the barbs make great tails on nymphs (specially hares ears) and also, you can use the hackle for the nymph, such as this fly (which happens to be my favorite nymph pattern):
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f120/ … 0_0058.jpg

just PM me if you want the recipe/tying instructions for it.

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I’m not sure, but I suspect that dmdmd is referring to the furry critter type badger. I have a badger pelt that I find to be similar to woodchuck and I use the fur like I would woodchuck. Is the badger you received from the North American Badger or from the English Badger if indeed they are even the same animal?

Jim Smith

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o woops :oops: i have hackle on the brain cuz i just bought a big grizzly neck today :oops: :roll: :oops:

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dmdmd, most shaving brushes made in this country are, or at least were, made out of badger hair. There are patterns that call for badger hair, but naturally I can’t think of any of them right now.

Ed

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Jim and EdD are correct–i have the furry critter in mind—

substitute badger for woodchuck in patterns?

Thanks

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I’ve just recently started tying flies so I don’t have all the experience in the world, but couldn’t you use it pretty much anywhere any other stiff, bristly hair fiber is called for? As I read Al Campbell’s fly tying guides here, the one constant suggestion I find throughout is using your imagination and being creative. Tie up a badger hair caddis and see how it looks!

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dmdmd, the ausable white wuff uses badger hackle.

You can also use it for the coffin fly (green drake spinner pattern.

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Hi Dmdmd,

The dubbing often traditionally used for the light Cahill is cream badger underfur. The guard hairs are used as the topping on the wing of the “Little Brook Trout.”

The pattern (*) of the Little Brook Trout is:

Hook: Mustad 9575, 4-14
Thread: Black
Tail: Red floss/bright green bucktail
Rib: Flat silver tinsel
Body: Cream fur (good place for your cream badger underfur)
Throat: Orange bucktail
Wing: Equal amounts white bucktail, orange bucktail, bright green bucktail, topped with badger hair (or gray squirrel)
Cheek: jungle cock

  • Per “The American Fly Tying Manual”, but Hughes

Regards,

Gandolf

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I thought you’d like to see, there is quite a difference between them -

Eurasian Badger - meles meles
http://www.badgers.org.uk/badgerpages/p … les01b.jpg

American badger (Taxidea taxus).
http://www.badgers.org.uk/badgerpages/p … tax-02.jpg

I bought a an old fashioned shaving brush a couple of years ago, ‘genuine badger hair’, it did not say where it was made but I think China, so it was probably the Eurasian badger. It makes good tails for dry flies etc.

And a Guid New Year tae ane and a’

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Thanks Gandolf and Donald

Happy New year to you all