Hareline Calf Tails

Premium calf tail hair is a staple material for fly tyers who demand natural movement, durability, and high visibility in their patterns. Carefully selected and processed, this versatile hair is ideal for creating crisp, even wings, strong tails, and defined posts on a wide range of trout, salmon, steelhead, and bass flies.

The natural texture and moderate stiffness of calf tail hair allow it to flare just enough while still maintaining its shape in the current. This makes it perfect for tying dry fly wings, parachute posts, spinner wings, hairwing patterns, and attractor flies that sit properly on the water and remain easy to track in varying light conditions.

Each tail offers a generous amount of usable fiber with consistent length and quality, giving you reliable results from fly to fly. The hair stacks well for clean, even tips and trims smoothly for precise silhouettes, whether you are tying small technical dries or bold, high-visibility steelhead and salmon patterns.

Use this calf tail hair to:

• Tie durable, buoyant wings and posts for dry flies and parachutes
• Create defined tails that resist fouling and add lifelike movement
• Add visibility and profile to attractor patterns and indicator-style dries
• Craft classic hairwing and modern streamer designs

Ideal for beginners and expert fly tiers alike, this natural calf tail hair handles easily, blends well with other materials, and helps you produce professional-quality flies at the vise. A must-have in any well-stocked fly tying bench, it brings dependable performance to everything from tiny river dries to bold, eye-catching steelhead and salmon flies.