Favorite tailing material for dry flies?

[franklin]

What is your favorite tailing material for dry flies? I've gone through several phases and am now using CDL for some, dry hackle fibers for others. I used micro fibetts for a while but they don't seem to hold up. Always seem to get kinked.

NJTroutbum might make a good subject for a video. (I didn't check to see if there is one already. Just don't remember seeing any.)

 

[fisherboy3]

On spinners, comparaduns and parachutes, I use microfibbets. For quill body thorax style dry flies, I use hackle fibers. For some dun patterns with web wing for the wings, i use wood duck for the barring.

 

[lestrout]

Yo fra

For classic Catskill type dries, I'm hoarding my pre-super genetic hackle necks, from India and China. Though the new breed gives fantastic hackles, they don't have the nice stiff spade hackles like the oldies.

For large #10+ dries, like big Dun Variants, where I like the flies to stand on their tippy toes and dance, I use specific non-hollow elk hair.

I'm not sure what season/sex/body part of the elk has this non-hollow hair, but it stays reasonably stiff when wet without being so wiry as to pop the fly out of a trout's mouth.

 

[GenCon]

For most CDL. Particularly for larger flys. Smaller flies I use fibers from a full cape. Emerger types I use looped zelon.

GenCon

 

[JackM]

Synthetic paintbrush fibers or cheap hen hackle.

 

[WildTigerTrout]

Microfibbets

 

[troutpoop]

CDL, micro fibets, or antron & zelon for emergers styles

 

[nfrechet]

moose body hairs

 

[Arrowflinger]

Coq de Leon

 

[jeremymcon]

Moose body hair most often, Coq de Leon for delicate/light colored patterns

 

[duckfoot]

Whatever's in my scrap pile. I'm frugal.

 

[mcwillja]

Moose mane and antron or zelon with some wooduck or CDL. Moose mane is so much easier to work with than microfibbets. I would say over 75% dry or emerger i use antron or zelon. Sometimes in burnt orange so my pattern stands out.

 

[franklin]

Thanks for the replies. I have never tied with moose hair. Will have to give them a try.