badger hair

rgloft · Senior Member

badger hair

Flounder · Veteran Member

Here is a pattern that is appropriate if you go skin the badger:

http://www.flyfishingconnection.com/patterns/flies/297/Road+Kill+Badger+Variant/

-- Edited by Flounder on Saturday 12th of September 2009 05:22:38 PM

AbelBoy · Senior Member

Yes, there are flies tied with badger. But how often will you tie with badger hair? I know professional fly tiers who have never tied with it. Worst case scenario. Go buy a $5.00 patch from the local fly shop. You won't have to worry about dealing with a ripe skin.

AB

Flying Dutchman · Senior Member

AbelBoy wrote:

Go buy a $5.00 patch from the local fly shop. You won't have to worry about dealing with a ripe skin.

AB

Or bringing in larva/pest to start working on your other materials...

rgloft · Senior Member

Thanks for the info I was hopeing someone wasen't going to tell me how the thing was worth like a bunch of money and there I go skinning some old dead carcas . The thing that was sad tghat was the only time I vv ever seen a badger and it was dead i did not know that there were any living in this part of the state that amazes me I hope there not indangered