Tying your own bucktails
 

I know many of us are both hunters and fishermen, so I thought I would share. I skinned out the tail of my last whitetail deer and put it in a small Rubbermaid container with borax sprinkled all over it to help preserve. I had intentions of using it for tying flies this past spring but never got around to it.

I finally dig it out this past weekend and opened up the box. The tail was well preserved and the hair was in excellent shape. I got out my fly vice and some jig heads I use ice fishing and proceeded to tie up a few of the following.

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You can obviously make them as bulky as you like. In this case I added a couple strands of flash and kept it pretty slim as I usually add a minnow head.

Since it is hunting season I thought I would encourage a few here to keep your tails for tying jigs and flies if you aren’t already doing so.

SS

Thanks for the timely reminder.

Nicely done! I've been tying my own jigs for Coho fishing here in the rivers. We use marabou and rabbit fur though. Maybe buck tails would work too. I'll have to tie a few and see what happens.
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