Peter A. Collin wrote:

I am doing some winter tying. Having made all of my most used
patterns,
I want to get into some more extic stuff. Does anybody have much
experience with synthetic materials used for a grasshopper wing? I
have
always used turkey, but believe that a synthetic would give me a
neater,
trimmer profile that I want. Any suggestions?

if God had meant for synthetic anything to be used on a trout fly, he
would have made roosters out of graphite and elk out of fiberglass.
Screw the synthetic stuff, use real feathers. g