Colorado Bucktails

Any decent fly fisherman will tell you that the best bucktail streamers are made from the tail hair of a whitetail. Spun deer hair bugs are made from the belly hair of a coastal whitetail and caddis are made with elk hair. Occationally moose mane is used to form segmented quill bodies on drys and nymphs or for tails on high-floating western flies.

So all that being said since I have been off the water the past few days I decided to share some pictures of some wanna-be bucktail candidates from the Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs. These muleys may not have the hair sought after by fly tyers but they had some nice velvet!

This doe got spooked when I pulled out the camera.


This big bruiser was up near the visitor center.


He was not camera shy!


Showing off his rack.


Velvet


Junior shows up to get into the scene.


The Boss


Buck #3 appears on cue.


Not a trophy but a nice rack.


Three Amigos

Kinda makes you want to tie up some flies and go fishing.