And Again He Got Me

This past week the mailman stuffed a large envelope in the mail slot. I enjoy getting those large envelopes cause I know bills don't come in them.
When I opened it up to my amazement there was a "SKUNK" tail in it. I knew where it came from right away. Old Man Bob strikes again. First the fancy salmon feathers and hooks now a "SKUNK" tail.

I joked with him about it cause I was going to send him the same the next week as a joke.
After some thought I figured let's see what I can do with the hair.
The white stripes on a skunk start out white at the bases then turn black towards the tips. Some have longer white bases then others so I worked my way threw the tail cutting out what I could work with.
The first picture is of a bucktail deceiver which I guess you could call a skunk hair deceiver or as I named it a stinky deceiver. The next picture is of a hollow tied fly I tied with skunk hair.
Both were tied with only skunk hair and no other materials except jungle cock eyes on the deceiver

Oh and a side note neither fly smells like a road kill skunk   



And the hollow tied fly

road killed skunk nice jesture bob......yea ive been smelling them alot lately they must be comming out burrows...........spring is on its way.......so are the shad on the delaware

Good looking flies! I tied commercially for many years & once got several skunk tails from a supplier that they had closed-out. My thought was they would be good for hair jigs for bass, but the hair is courser than I like for that & I couldn't see wasting that nice long hair. After receiving them I wondered what the heck would I tie with them! Big Deceivers were the obvious choice. I've dyed some of the white portions too particularly chartreuse or purple. Chartreuse & black & Blurple are always good colors!

I like the body fur from skunks too for small hair jigs for Smallmouth bass.