"BJ Conner" wrote in message
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just looked through some notes I took....a long while back. Seems the
important part is the actual color, and it's obviously a dye job(rusty
orange oppossums are, at the very least, rare in natureg). A medium shade
of rusty orange fur of most sorts will probably work, and equally important
is that it must be dubbed on the fluorescent orange thread. I have seen them
tied with different tailing, but Fran insisted on woodchuck tail, except for
really huge ones, where he went to deer or bucktail, I don't recall which(I
tend to tie these in smaller sizes 14-18,
they are deadly on small streams).
Tom