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This is a thread I started last spring when the Faux BT first showed up. After this past season of tying and fishing, my opinion has not changed. It makes a decent Surf Candy, but I actually did not use it much and used real BT and the more translucent Super Hair or Unique Hair more for my Surf Candies and epoxy minnows. I wish they'd make the Faux BT more translucent--as someone says in the thread above, the Faux Bucktail is really more like Super Hair with tapered tips than real bucktail. JMO YMMV 

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I use it on some Snook Fly pattern because it is very opaque and I like that in the off color water. The thing I don't like about it is it does not compress when you wrap the thread on it and you get some rather bulky heads.

 

With that being said I think the material is designed that way to be used in conjunction with the Fish Skull Heads in order to get a snug fit on the head. I found using the Skull head with real buck tail I had a hard time getting the head to fit and not rotate around on the hook.

The Tug Is The Drug

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On 12/18/2017 at 11:08 AM, jabster said:

My personal opinion is that the Faux bucktail is one of the worst product's that has been pushed on to the market in quite some time. 92% of the other products out there are better. but that's just me. Someone else might like it a lot. 

I agree with jabster 100%.

If you are one of the fly tyers who think faux bucktail is a great product, hang in there because it's bound to be on closeout sales soon from opinions of fly tyers I've read online.

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I'll echo everyone else's opinion and say that I'm not really a fan at all. The last thing that we need is more synthetics, and if imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, I'd be darn unhappy to be a nice deertail that's being compared to that junk. In my opinion, deertail is far superior, is more  biodegradable if lost in a tree, has a much better odor--I enjoy the "stink" of a tail--and also offers a much wider variety in terms of hair types.

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