Elevate your fly tying with Elk Body Hair, a time-tested favorite among professional and hobbyist fly tiers alike. Sourced from high-quality North American elk, this natural material offers the perfect combination of buoyancy, durability, and versatility — essential for tying classic dry flies like the Elk Hair Caddis, Humpies, and stimulators.
Key Features:
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Premium Quality: Coarse, hollow fibers provide excellent flotation and resilience on the water.
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Natural Color: Ideal for imitating a wide range of insects; takes dye well for custom patterns.
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Easy to Work With: Stiff yet manageable texture makes stacking, shaping, and trimming straightforward for consistent results.
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Versatile Application: Perfect for wings, tails, and bodies on dry flies and terrestrials.
Elk body hair makes excellent wings for caddis, humpy bodies and spinning some hair bodies. This makes very durable high floating dry flies such as the Mr. Rapidan Dry Delta Wing Caddis which we tie in different colors and our Yellow Jacket Dry Fly which we tie with yellow elk body hair.