Gold Mine!!! Hair and Fibers . . .
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This weekend I met an old and very accomplished fly guy who has been tying flies for years. The weather was bad and there was nothing to do so he invited me over to tie. What a great time – I learned all kinds of tips and tricks from him. The most important was the creative ways he finds materials for tying. Let me tell you, this tip below turned out to be a veritable gold mine!
He said that he gets all his hair and fur and fibers from a local wig shop. In Atlanta these kind of shops are very common and so I visited one today on my way home. OMG it is amazing the stuff they have in there. I found these hair weaves for $1.09 per package – all colors under the rainbow and perfect for tying bass bugs, Clouser’s or any saltwater patterns. For $20 I got enough hair and fiber to last me years!
These are the hair weaves and the colors are shown below.
These are the brand names in case you want to know
These are longer weaves and they are essentially the same fibers as super hair that we pay so much for at the fly shop. The colors are awesome and come in black, brown, tan, green, and black/purple, black/tan, and many others.
They also had some fibers that are like Enrico Puglisi fibers, picture not shown.
For $1.50 they had mylar in all colors and these would be good for gotcha’s.
They also carry lots of bead that I picked up for eyes.
If anyone wants me to send some of these (If you don’t have a beauty/wig shop in your area) just let me know via PM/message.
Those look good, Neal (although I think the top fly must ride upside down or you have the colors flopped).
Great link to a bunch of false-hair flies
http://www.acc.umu.se/~widmark/fly/falsehair.html
A couple of saltwater patterns using wig hair
http://www.flyfishinsalt.com/techniques/fly-tying-bench/noyes-mushy-eel-41135.html
http://www.stripersonline.com/surftalk/showthread.php?t=580559
This one is interesting, an old Montana wet fly pattern using wig hair for the soft hackle
http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/Fly-Tying/Sandy-Pittendrigh/Articles/Hair-Hackle-Wet-Flies.html
simply beautiful patterns, woven wig hair
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