Whats better deer or calf

[laserdoc]

Which is preferred when it comes to these two.
Deer belly hair or kip tail

[Jiggin_Joe]

I prefer Calf for jigs 1/16 or less and deer for bigger

JJ

[Fatman]

I'm with Jiggin Joe, unless I don't have any kip in the color I need then it's bucktail.

Fatman

[mikeb]

Depends on what I am tying..I like them both.
Good gill jig wit the deer belly and a good crappie jig wit the kip.
mikeb

[OKSTATEjiggy]

Wouldn't belly hair flair like a SOB?

Or does deer belly not have as much air in the fibers?

[AtticaFish]

OKState...

I thought the same thing, isn't the belly hair the stuff I use to spin hair to make mice and hopper flies? Been awhile since I've bought some, don't remember what it was....

[sticksteer]

I like the kip myself, its as easy to use as the squirel tail. The deer belly seems to flair out to much for me.

[mikeb]

I like the kip myself, its as easy to use as the squirel tail. The deer belly seems to flair out to much for me.

It does flair alot,but I don't use very much and I have to trim it off sometimes.
But it makes a good Bluegill jig.Haveta add some splitshot to git it down sometime also.
like that toooo.
mikeb

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

I like kiptail,then tree rat and rarely use the bucktail.The bucktail seems to long so I trim it a lot and make a mess.

[fish_4_all]

For small stuff, kip and squirrel tail would be my first and only choices really. I do use a ton of bucktail but only on very long streamers and have used a lot of deer belly hair for spinning bugs and flared body patterns.

There is a way to use the belly hair to make a very interesting jig pattern though. Tie it in toward the head letting it flair as much as it wants and then pull it down to form a kind of fat belly. You can also tie it in backwards and do the same thing for a more formed and rounded body.

It all has it's uses for me but for basic tails and small ties I really don't like deer body hair.