Beaver Hair Jigs

Anyone ever use Beaver hair for tying jigs. I just happened to remember that I had cured and tanned a couple of beaver hides last year and used only one to make me a hat. I was wanting to tie some crawfish pattern jigs and the reddish brown hair is just what I wanted. Any of U guys ever used Beaver for jigs. If so how did U like it.:D

Fly tyers use every kind of hair/fur that it out there. Nothing get off that hook so sure it should work some way. Sice I don't know how long the hair is you may need to zonker it or cut it off the skin and dub it.

Skip

Here is a link to a thread on the forum that has a picture of what some one did with Beaver. Use the search at the top and maybe more will come up. Know that Flatfish Has a good one with beaver as we exchanged jigs and I got one of his beaver jigs. But give this a try for starters. http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...-hair-jig.html

All the best

Redman

Skip is right with cutting some zonkers and then tying the jigs. It's fun to tie with some different fur as they have been using Beaver on flies for a long time. ScottV had posted a pic of a jig he tied with a zonker he cut from some I sent him and the jig looked very good. I got busy so the Beaver got put away until I get more ideas about using it :).
Good luck and post a pic of the jig you come up with.