FLYMPH FORUM

Pronounced "Shammy". Sort of a Mountain Goat.



Introduced here in NZ many many decades ago and whilst not that common, sometimes seen when out deer stalking or fishing around various places in mountainous areas of the South Island.

Anyway. I have recently being playing around with the fur from one I shot some yrs ago and had been using some neck fur for hair hackled emerger type dries. (The fur is fine and deer like and will spin or stack in similar fashion to deer hair - more or less depending on the body area.) Then Hans showed us Moose Ear fur in action. Aha!! So I pulled out the Chamois Ears: Quite soft on the outer side and lends itself nicely to soft hair hackle.



The paler inside is also quite usable.



And a soft hair hackled fly made with the stuff - not up to Hans' standard I'm afraid.. Body of Orange Pearsall's gossamer touch dubbed with a mix of mole and muskrat fur, ribbed with fine wire. Hackle of Chamois Ear fur.



The second one is the same but using purple 8/0 Unithread. One turn of hackle too many methinks on that one but what the hell.



I am sure they'll work. (They had better as I've tied up a couple of dozen in 14 - 16! )

Johnno,

Good looking critters!

I know they will work splendid indeed.

Another animal with promise, but more for use in dry flies, is the Moufflon. Very high lanolin content in those pelts.

Here is a set with several patterns using Moufflon:

http://www.danica.com/flytier/mruoff/mruoff.htm

Cheers,
Hans W

Nice flies there Hans.

I have some Thar offcuts as well but have yet to have a play with them. One day I'll get around to it!

Excellent flies, John. I have no doubts about their effectiveness. They look like they will both fish extremely well.

Very nice flies John. It's always nice to get information on new material sources (at least for me). Some of these things I have never even heard of. Good work.

Very interesting, Johnno. The flies look great!

Mark

Darn you guy's are good, thinking outside the box.

Johnno,

Great flies, though I prefer the colors of the first, I'm sure both will take fish. Haven't seen a Chamois in several years.

Johnno,

Those are great looking. Nice combo.
I'm going to have to break down and try these hair hackles.
Maybe Mike Connor was right, we might need to make hair hackles the next IBF swap.

w