"I guess you heard about my squirrel tails?"

(It's nothing more than red fluorescent floss wound on a No. 10 or 12 hook topped off with a bit of gray squirrel tail.)

I am down to my last gray squirrel tail, a problem that in bygone years would have been solved by an hour or two of squirrel hunting.

My special, which is drab by comparison, substitutes orange fluorescent floss for the red, and fine, brown bucktail for the squirrel tail.

Eyebrows the size of squirrel tails met in mid-brow.

"She fools you," Darryl said, "with that 'do, like a squirrel tail laying on her head, but underneath it the girl's brain works pretty good."

It also seems to lack the underwing of gray squirrel tail.

The next step was to determine whether natural encounters between squirrels resulted in rattlesnakes responding to squirrel tail flagging by reducing predatory behavior.

A nasty spider of fist size stood revealed, wearing a bushy squirrel tail.

When retrieved in short jerks, the squirrel tail pulsates in the water.