Tips on Making the Second Bucktail for Fly Fishing

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"ALVIN DEDEAUX: Now, we need to get our bucktail, a chartreuse bucktail for the top of the hook. So once again, the further you get your hair toward the tip of the tail as opposed to the base of tail, the better quality the hair is going to be, so I'll just pull out. Usually, you pull out a little bit more than you think you're going to need because when you clean off the underfur, you lose a little bit of that thickness. Let's clip it off. Okay, once again, I'm going to kinda just move it together, pull my fingers out toward the tip of it, then just pull out that underfur. We don't want that stuff. We just want the nice long ones. Okay, then I'm going to go ahead and flip my hook over and figure out about how long I want that. I might make this a little bit longer on top than I did on the bottom so that's about right, right about there. So, I'm going to go ahead and put my fingers, pinch it right in front of where I want to cut it off, and then just clip that off. Now that bucktail's ready to attach to my hook."