take a look at the artic fox tails. very supple, soft and great for smaller size flies. you can save the underfur for dubbing use later. it comes in may colors, but the best IMHO(in my humble opinion) are the natural white, light olive, and silver/gray. if you want to give the synthetics a try, go to fibre blend or polyblend. they are a polarfibre like material with the flash built into the mix. it looks great and moves great, and is easy to work with. also, look at the vise prices, I saw some great deals(I already own too many). Tom D