I purchased some comparadun hair from linesend recently. Very fine and short stuff. Byard, is it from a deer mask? Are there other parts on the body which offers comparadun hair? What makes deer hair to become comparadun hair? Inquiring minds.... Rene
-----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Paul Marriner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: Sonntag, 26. Januar 2003 14:49 Betreff: Re: [VFB] Buoyancy of hair? >As usual I was overly brief in my previous post. I won't go over old >ground but will make a couple of additional points: >1) although some recommend whitetail mask hair for Comparaduns, I have >not found this to be very good. Once again we are talking about the >masks I have seen. The mask hair has very little pith and so does not >flair well at all. Instead it ties more like squirrel tail than deer >body hair. >2) caribou body hair is an excellent floater but has several drawbacks - >the first is that it is quite soft and so easy to cut with thread under >tension; the second is that it isn't available in the range of lengths >that deer body hair is. >Cheers, >Paul >-- >Paul Marriner >Outdoor Writing & Photography. Member OWAA & OWC. Author of Atlantic >Salmon, Ausable River Journal, Miramichi River Journal, and Modern >Atlantic Salmon Flies.
