Dry flies should have a good buoyancy for which we use natural hair such as deer hair, elk hair, or chamois hair, all these hairs have excellent buoyancy. Pike streamers and other Predator Flies are often tied with Iceland sheep. This long fiber-like material has an excellent easy floating movement property under water. Breathe life into any streamer with this material. Calf Tail is used among other things in parachute flies as a sighting aid. Woodchuck hair, badger fur, rabbit fur and squirrel hair - these and other natural hairs can be found in this category.
Chamois Hair is a fly tying hair material what can be used on many fly patterns like dry flies, sedge, caddys, stimulator ors streamer.
Fox Hair Fur can be used on many different fly pattern. One time find it place on streamer like muddler and othewise on nymphs or dry flies. Since years some appassionate tyers make his flies with this. A wonderful product, excellent for tying legs on nymphs, tails on dry flies or legs on bugs
The stiff hair of the wild boar has long been an insider's tip for tying feet on nymphs or as a tail on dry flies.