I tie all feathers by the butt, then wind them from eye to hook gap. After some wraps od thread, to trap the surplus feather, thread goes through hackle winding (cross wraping it) and final wraps comes just beihnd hook eye.

Old Hat,

I'm gonna use that idea with deer hair! Like it a lot!

Rabbit's foot hair are somewhat shorter and finer compared to hare's foot hair. And hare's foot is somewhat larger than rabbit's. Basically, it is not dramatically different and both could be used for same purpose. And, there are no two animals identical. I'm not sure, but seems (to me) that snowsho...

I use hare foot underfur as dubbing component. So, it' not rabbit, it common European hare's foot. And I discard long and coarse and guard hair, and use only middle and base layer of underfur as dubbing. Usually, I use hare's foot underfur as 1/3 of dubbing mix. Doing this for some years. There are ...

OMG!!!

http://www.jackgartside.com/art_pheasant_feathers.htm

Excellent article by late Jack Gartside.

Bead Head Hare's Nymph
Sawyer's Pheasant Tail Nymph
Copper John

swellcat wrote:Thread seems to be missing critical context. Has content been deleted?

Probably author (Mike Connor), mentioned in some replies of this thread, requested deleting all his' posts after he decided to leave this forum.

...or maybe not?

My favorite, too... Nice fly!

Very nice fly and great photo!!