Snowshoe hare feet ?

[fishinwrench]

So......Can a person dye these pure WHITE ?    

Because this is as light as they come.   

 

I wanna use them as a calftail substitute on my smaller (#16-20) Dalmatian Trudes......but they gotta be WHITE (or so I think)

[BilletHead]

53 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

So......Can a person dye these pure WHITE ?    

Because this is as light as they come.   

 

I wanna use them as a calftail substitute on my smaller (#16-20) Dalmatian Trudes......but they gotta be WHITE (or so I think)

                 Maybe but you will have to bleach out first and I doubt it will be as white as you want. Besides the part about rabbit feet is the oil that helps it stay buoyant and bleach will kill that.  As far as what the fish see in the difference of pure white and light tan will not make a hoot to them. BUT if you don't have faith in that color working you will not be happy. Just send them to me :).

[fishinwrench]

25 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

Just send them to me :).

If it doesn't work out, consider them yours.  

It's not so much about what the fish see, since the wing is mostly obscured from their vision.    It's about ME being able to see if the fly is floating the way I want it to when 45'+ away.  

Calftail is great.....until you get to size#16 and smaller.

[fishinwrench]

27 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

Besides the part about rabbit feet is the oil that helps it stay buoyant

I don't buy into that BS.

I have Frogs Fanny.  That stuff will float an engine block.

[BilletHead]

2 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

 

I have a Frogs Fanny.  

      That is way too personal. 

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

So......Can a person dye these pure WHITE ?    

Because this is as light as they come.   

 

I wanna use them as a calftail substitute on my smaller (#16-20) Dalmatian Trudes......but they gotta be WHITE (or so I think)

            Thanks for the offer but pass them on to a new tyer. I have some and they do make a nice wing on a caddis. Also, good to imitate the spruce moth hatch out west. 

[fishinwrench]

Spruce moth. I've read about that.

Is that a real thing?

[fishinwrench]

I see those, in batches, on the gravel bars of every stream I fish.   Never once have I seen one on the water.

Are they different out west?

[BilletHead]

38 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Spruce moth. I've read about that.

Is that a real thing?

            Yes, it is. Seen it and when trout key in on them it's on.  

[BilletHead]

20 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I see those, in batches, on the gravel bars of every stream I fish.   Never once have I seen one on the water.

Are they different out west?

                 There is an eastern and western version. Spruce trees are what they need.  I have seen them out west where everywhere you look you see one. I suppose like any hatch it takes a few to get the feed bag going.  

Choristoneura freemani - Wikipedia