Thursday, June 28, 2007

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!

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This doe got spooked when I pulled out the camera.

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This big bruiser was up near the visitor center.

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He was not camera shy!

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Showing off his rack.

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Velvet

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Junior shows up to get into the scene.

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The Boss

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Buck #3 appears on cue.

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Not a trophy but a nice rack.

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Three Amigos

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

2 comments:

Bawana said...

Now were talking, I knew you would get some good captures on this trip. Hey don't you know you need a license to shoot deer??

Paul Batchelder said...

Bucktail flies that is!