I have used coyote and fox tail for tying clousers, don't know why racoon
tail wouldn't work for either clousers or blondes.


He is now dead so I can say the big secret
of Raymond Arsenault's RAT series of salmon
flies (at Campbelltown, NB) was his use of
coyote for the wing rather than the gray fox or
gray squirrel suggested in most pattern books.
(The basis of this conclusion is that, after a very
pleasant hour-long chat in 1978, when I guessed the
RAT wing might be coyote he immediately threw me
out of his store.)

Cool. Got some coyote too from an old parka. By the way, I've never
been thrown out of a fly fishing store. Then again, my standard
greeting at my favorite store is opening the door and throwing in my
wallet like a live grenade. Proprietor jumps on it to save me every time.

--
Frank Reid
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