Were on-line can I find woodchuck tail? I am having trouble locating some. Thanks.
Or, you could take a chance and buy these http://cgi.ebay.com/TAXIDERMY-2-GROUND-HOG-SKINS-FISHING-FLYTYING-WOODCHUCK_W0QQitemZ360198591365QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item53dd825385
I have no affiliation with this seller, it just seems like a good buy since you’re only going to use the fur for fly tying anyway. Just a thought…
Jim Smith
You might try www.hideandfur.com
I don’t get mine ‘on line’
I find them ‘on road’
:rolleyes:
Or here?
I got mine here…
Were they a nice brown color with good bands? The picture shows them to look blackish. Thanks
Fairly golden with black banding … Oh, sorry. You were asking Kengore!:rolleyes:
Hi Terry13111,
What are you going to use it for? Most of them are dark in color, and some have silver tips at the hair ends, but are not all that easy to find. If it’s for the tail on an Ausable Wulff, Fran used the body guard hairs even though his book calls for an old woodchuck’s tail. The guard hairs are very thick in diameter around the head and neck and get gradually thinner towards the rear. If you just buy a couple of small pieces from a fly shop, chances are that it will have these finer diameter guard hairs. They are much more barred in color than what’s on the tail either way though.
Regards,
Mark
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Hey there Betty Darlin’,
I hates to contradict you and stuff, but that there picture ain’t a woodchuck. (_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodchuck) That there’s a rockchuck, a.k.a. Yellow-bellied Varmint. (_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchuck) Both are marmots and thus related (by marriage on their Mothers’ side). Their tales are likely to be a tad different…
Both are afraid of flying things. Woodchucks are afraid of bugs (.22 Hornets). Rockchucks are afraid of birds (.220 Swifts).
Warmest regards from the Sunny South,
Ed
I got to agree with Ed on that one Betty. Which reminds me does anyone know;
How much wood,
can a woodchuck chuck,
if a woodchuck,
could chuck,
wood?
Answer;
A woodchuck,
would chuck,
as much wood,
as a woodchuck,
could chuck,
if a woodchuck,
could chuck,
wood.
hNt
PS How fast can you say that out loud?
Coffin furs (link in my post) are great folks to deal with. They do a lot of buisness with fly tyers. You can call them and ask for more specific colorations, they have a lot more stock than what is pictured on the web site. The ones I have are kind of dark ginger with good dark banding.
P.S. They will take back any material that doesn’t meet the customers needs, excellent cutomer service.
I have a tail of a marmot, just waiting to be used. he was too slow to get across the road in front of the car in front of us. My knife was pretty quick though.
Be careful with these critters if harvesting them yourself…they are the most critter invested critters I have come across.
yeah, but throw the tail into a baggie of Borax…Everyone dies!!
Maybe but it didn’t work for whole pelts:(
One way to get rid of critters on whole pelts or if you suspect an infestation is to take medium to large size cooler, place about one pound of dry ice in an open container in the cooler and place all of your materials that you think might be infested into the cooler. You can close the cooler, but DO NOT seal it shut or it will explode. The dry ice will go through sublimation (go directly from a solid to a gas) and since the resulting gas is heavier than air, it will stay in the bottom of the cooler displacing the oxygen as it fills the cooler up. Every critter I know needs oxygen to survive and a few hours in this cooler will kill them all off. This is a clean, simple way to get rid of critters quickly. If you do a Google search for dry ice in your area, you?ll find a number of places that sell it.
Jim Smith
Interesting, Jim…never heard of that…never have trusted the freezer or microwave approaches…have heard of failures with those.