He asked the FBI to analyze Bigfoot hair 40 years ago...

[Miles]

He should have asked any experienced fly tyer first. Would have saved him a few decades.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/06/he-asked-fbi-analyze-bigfoot-hair-years-ago-never-heard-back-until-now/?utm_source=pocket-newtab&utm_term=.6c4d9bbfe8d3

[Dalton Terrell]

That was my thought while reading this article as well. But in reality, I haven't seen any Bigfoot hair to compare to bear, deer, human, or other hair. I assumed Bigfoot hair would be thinner and more supple than deer, but who knows...

D

[Denny Mac]

I'm tempted to have some Sasquatch pubes the commercial dubbing product sent into the FBI for analysis now

[Daniel Lazenby]

Could be a more coarse hair :)

Daniel

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 5:05 PM Dalton Terrell <daltonb...@gmail.com> wrote:

That was my thought while reading this article as well. But in reality, I haven't seen any Bigfoot hair to compare to bear, deer, human, or other hair. I assumed Bigfoot hair would be thinner and more supple than deer, but who knows...

D

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[Miles]

I tend to favor Dalton's guess, though my sense is I probably wouldn't need to rule out all possible alternatives to say, "this looks a hell of a lot like bucktail". I have at least dozen different species of hair in my tying desk and I'm pretty sure I could tell the deer/elk apart from the rest with my eyes closed.

As far as guesstimating a mythical creature's hair type: to the best of my knowledge, any hominid or close cousin would not have hair as stiff as deer hair. I've been to the zoo a fair number of times when the chimps and other primates were up against the glass, and their hair doesn't look to anything like deer hair. It's finer and wavier, and -- as Dalton said -- looks to be lots more supple. It also seems like it would be pretty lifeless in the water -- not flare on the hook or move enticingly. I expect bigfoot hair would be pretty useless as a fly tying material, if bigfoot were proven to be a real animal.

As it stands, I expect bigfoot fur has exactly the same properties as kraft fur.

Miles

 Daniel Lazenby wrote:

Could be a more coarse hair :)

Daniel

[Daniel Lazenby]

Hadn't paid that much attention to primates at the zoo. I'll have to be more observant next time I go.

Daniel

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[Gregg DiSalvo]

But seriously....

Anybody know where I can get some Bigfoot hair?

[Andrew Sarcinello]

I heard PA is the third best state to find bigfoot, behind Washington and California. I'm not sure how you can rank best places to find something that's never been found, but that's the word on the street.