GRHE question

Whoda thunk a question about such an easy fly...

I was tying some up last night, size 12-18, and I could not get the bodies
on the smaller ones to be compact enough. The hare fur was all spikey and
made them rather bulbous rather than that 'nymph' shape that they should be.
How do you get hare's ear to behave? If I tried cutting the fur down to tiny
little pieces, it wouldn't dub so well (even with wax), but if I left it
long, the rogue hairs made the fly look like a food pellet instead of a
nymph. I eventually just used 80% synthetic dubbing with some pieces of
hare's ear, and wrapped the heck out of it.

And exactly where on the mask should I be harvesting fur for these? I guess
I'm not sure what the different parts of the mask are called. Even the ear
has at least 4 different qualities of fur (inside, on the rim, the tip and
the base).

--riverman