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That was just the leading edge of our bucktail order. There will be more to choose from soon.
I talked to several of the tyers last weekend, all felt coast wide the quality and selection of bucktail has faded. No one really knows why though.
My guess is it's just simple economics, there's less fly tyers overall so at the production end there's not as much motivation to cut, prep, and dye a bucktail the way they used to, which is a big part of a "good" bucktail.
One thing everyone agreed on is that we all got spoiled. You can still find "good" if not exceptional (in the grand scheme of things) bucktail. And there's surely plenty of greasy, short, stinky, stiff haired tails around. Just not the freaks we were enjoying a few years ago.
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