CM_Stewart,
Thanks for sending Mike’s web site. It has a ton of info on it!
Hi,
I’ve never seen all fur wets, with hair for the hackle I mean, before. These look very interesting and I bet effetive.
- Jeff
two of my best catches were with wets using fox squirrel. Underfur can be dubbed and the long hairs make tail, wing and beard.
WarrenP,
Take a look at http://www.flytyingfurs.com (an FAOL sponsor, by the way). Compared to feathers, squirrel skins are really cheap at about $3.50 each and I’m sure you could tie hundreds and hundreds of flies from each skin. I’ve bought a grey squirrel, fox squirrel, cottontail and a jackrabbit (couldn’t find a place to buy European Hare in the US) skin from them and would certainly buy from them again except I’ll probably never tie enough flies to need more fur.
Warren, great thread. Thanks,
Ed
And don’t forget the all hair dry flies as well. Of course, elk hair caddis, deer hair emerger, etc. are hair flies, but they are well enough known already. The following use hair from European hare, but I would guess cottontail or jackrabbit would work also. Squirrel might as well. I’m certainly no expert and am only just beginning to try these myself.
This site’s in French, but the pictures are pretty self explanatory:
http://ns33014.ovh.net/~dessaign/Lesmou … lievre.htm
Forum registration required to watch following video, but it’s free and the video alone is worth it: http://bazzflyfishing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41
Some pictures from Hans Weilenmann’s great site:
http://www.danica.com/flytier/tzuellich/tzuellich.htm
And a step by step for Thomas Zuellich’s foam & hare klink:
http://thomaszuellich.de/Fliegendose/re … re%20Klink/index.html
CM_Stewart,
How am I ever going to “kick” the wet fly/soft hackle addiction if you keep feeding me more and more links to them!! 
There has to be some kind of law against what you are doing to me! You are a wet fly/soft hackle “pimp” and you just have to stop!! I cannot take it anymore.
I can kick this habit…I know I can…or maybe I can’t! What am I to do!?
Oh, the heck with it…I know I will never kick this addiction…I am hooked for life…Give me more! :lol: :lol: :lol:
I’m sorry to have to tell you this WarrenP, but the only cure for a wet fly addiction is a Carrie Stevens/Rangely streamer addiction, and the only cure for that is a full dress salmon fly addiction.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.*
*The proposed government warning to be printed on fly tying kits.
While the Wooly Bugger is often considered or classified as a streamer (at least according to Stewart and Allen in Flies for Bass and Panfish) rather than a wet fly, here is a variation that might be of use for an all fur pattern. I would think this particular pattern would fall under the classification of a wet fly more than a streamer as there are no feathers included in the pattern (just fur) even though it could double for baitfish pattern as well as a bug.
Link below:
[url=http://invictaflies.tripod.com/id167.htm:8d8d3]Rabbit Bugger[/url:8d8d3]
WarrenP,
Okay, haven’t you figured it out yet. This is all a conspiracy to get you hooked on wet flies. The first few pattterns are free, then we start to charge for them, maybe get you to tell your friends about them and give them a free taste too. Pretty soon everyone will need the wet fly patterns and materials and we’ll be…Oh, wait, I got carried away there.
Hello, My name is Ron and I’m a wet fly addict.
Ron,
I think I understand now!! We get everyone fishing with wet flies and then we go back to our “go to” flies and out fish everyone! :lol:
Hello, My name is Warren and I am a wet fly addict…
welcome warren! :lol: :lol:
Singing with the Cocoa Puffs jingle!
“I’m Wacky for Wet Flies, Wacky for Wet Flies!!!” 
“I’m Soft in the Head over Soft Hackles!”
That’s OK, Dshock. I’ll lead you back to sanity. (Why is Betty Hiner giggling?) Just one step at a time. (and did you notice that jackdaw and water hen patches are on sale today?)
Ed, not an addict. Nope, I started when I was 12 and I’m not addicted yet. But if I don’t tye that new, white caterpillar pattern (the one that Jackster knows about) this week, I’m gonna scream…
Ed,
I know you must think I missed my calling (really NO musical talent) but I’m still mad at General Mills for
‘Dumping’ the cuckoo for cocoa puffs advertising. OH WELL! Life goes on!
I didn’t notice jackdaw and hen patches were on sale today!
Thanks for telling me about that Ed!
Is a jackdaw anything like a starling?? If it is then I’m a fan of having a LOT of jackdaw skins!
Doug
Doug,
It is nothing like a starling, it is a smallish member of the crow family, often just the dark scalp is for sale.
Look here - http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdgui … /index.asp
Or here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackdaw
here is a pattern i have used for years and is one of two nymphs i still use. this one works well for a general attractor or damn well for a march brown emerger.
hook- daiichi 1260 10-16
thread- rusty brown 8/0
tail- aussie possum dark guard hairs
abdomen- aussie possum light as possible section from hide brush with velcro
thorax- pearl glass bead 11/0
hackle- aussie possum dark guard hairs spun in loop
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for the collar cut a small bunch of hair from the hide with the tips aligned. pull the under fur out and make a small dubbing loop. place the hair evenly in the loop with the desired length sticking out to the left (right hand tyer) trim off the butts as close to the thread as possible then push them to the left until there is just a 32nd of an inch sticking out to the right of the thread. spin the loop and brush with velcro to free the tips. wrap forward tie off and brush again to full it up. the glass bead adds a little shine and weight and keeps the hackle flared better so it breathes more in the water. swing them like little spey flies!
sorry for the mediocre pic but i just pulled it out of the box and took a snap shot.
The technique Nick is referring to here is illustrated in the Schollmeyer/Leeson “Benchside Introduction to Fly Tying”.
Marty
Ruth Zinck wrote about her fly called the “Zinck Mink” in the book
“The World’s Best Trout Flies” Edited by John Roberts
It is a very good one-material multi-species dirt cheap fly.
I get mink collars for $2.00 at my local Salvation Army store.
Tail: Mink guard hair
Abdomen: Dubbed mink under-fur
Thorax: Dubbed mink under-fur and guard hair to give a spiky appearance
Note: I tie it in the round. It catches fish
Ed
Nick,
Really like that fly. Gonna have to try a couple of them.
REE