only one material

[drlogik]

+1 for peacock herl.

[Guestfly]

Ed's thread about favorite feathers reminded me of a question I like to ask tiers.

If you could use only one material besides thread, for all your fly tying, for trout, warm water fish, salt water...all your fishing , what would that material be? why?

Like already mentioned definitely CDC.
You can create a lot of patterns in a lot of colours and fish likes them also Ted.

Mike

[redietz]

It's kind of hard to tie anything without thread, so if thread counts as the material, then thread it is. Discounting thread, it would be partridge.

[wiFlyFisher]

If I were stranded on an island with a bottle (or two, or three) of whiskey, a mermaid, some hooks and thread and only one material -- it would be "deer hair" for sure.