Tying Educational -Riddle- guess the body material

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I think I have an interesting tying riddle here: Guess the body material used for this fly below.

This fly is tied based on old model received long time ago. My dear wife asked me to take care of my old things and clean my “non useful stuff. So I found an old metal box where some old flies was laying there covered by dust and other things.

I took one fly in hand to check it closely. Unfortunately the material felt apart right away so I was not able to make a photo of it. When I came back in shop I tied my version using the same materials but with on modern barbels hook with modern thread.

I added in thorax a little bit of dubbing, that was my “improvement”. The rest respect the old recipe.

So who wants to try to guess the material? 🙂

Cheers and stay safe!

23 Comments
  • Christian
    April 2, 2020

    I think this is Pekari Hair.

    • Ion Tudor Oltean
      April 3, 2020

      Par de porc spinos

    • Lucian Vasies
      April 8, 2020

      no, try again 🙂

    • Robert Dear
      April 15, 2020

      I think this cattgut

    • JAMES
      December 14, 2020

      This is a piece of horse hair.

  • Alban GAUDIN
    April 2, 2020

    Hello,

    I think it’s a bit of PECARI.
    cordially

  • GAUDIN Alban
    April 2, 2020

    Hello,

    PECARI hair
    Cordially

  • Ion Tudor Oltean
    April 3, 2020

    porcupine

  • Arthur Bouyer
    April 3, 2020

    It is moose hair!

  • Xavier Rey-Grobellet
    April 3, 2020

    Peccary hair

  • Lars Fagerlund
    April 8, 2020

    Wild Boar

  • luigi paolo busnelli
    April 8, 2020

    oppossum hair!!

  • luigi paolo busnelli
    April 8, 2020

    oppossum hair

  • luigi paolo busnelli
    April 9, 2020

    ribbin quill

  • luigi paolo busnelli
    April 11, 2020

    quill spellato di condor?

  • Arthur Bouyer
    April 13, 2020

    It is hare’s moustache, i think.

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