Soft Hackle Saddles. The soft fibers on these long saddle feathers make these ideal for tying any size and color buggar pattern. To see the complete offering of colors, please visit my page; Darbee Duns.
Long feathers for large sizes. Soft and webby. Graded for feather count and length, some reach 13 inches and longer. White Wooly Buggers. These are some nice saddles for tying white wooly buggars. The feathers are 5 to 7 inches long and have a fair amount of webbing, making them soft enough to give your fly movement in the water. Besides buggars, these saddles have feathers perfect for decievers and other saltwater patterns.
Looking to try your hand at dying feathers, here you go! Large Sizes - Stiff Hackle. These are Whiting American Rooster Saddles that I've selected for this page because of the feather quality. Soft Webby Rooster Saddle. The fibers on these feathers gives your fly life in the water. No other feather does quite the job simulating movement in the water.
Marabou is collected from the bird right where you put the stuffing in the turkey. These are the softest, fuffiest feathers on the bird. The term "blood quills" refers to the stage of feather growth. When a feather is growing, it is said to be "in blood". New feathers just coming in are called "pin feathers". The reason blood quills are are the best to use is that they are new feathers.
Birds molt each year and these new blood quills are fresh, not brittle, and free of any broken tips. A second reason is that a blood feather stem is flexible and not as bulky.
If left to grow another 10 days the feather "primes out" and the stem thickens and hardens. Dyed, they come in countless colors. I've listed the most popular colors, the rest you can find in the drop down menu. Grizzly Tails. The best feathers for tying "matuka" style flies are found on the breast of dry fly roosters. The feathers are long and wide with a round tip.
The web is dense and extends to the edge of each feather. Lower on the pelt is the chickabou. The best way to describe these feathers is that they are mini marabou. The fibers are soft and fluffy like marabou. For the first time I had soft, webby hen hackle with sufficient feather length to palmer several turns around a chunky body. Soon I was tying and fishing super-buggy Woollies loaded with great prospecting attributes.
Whiting hen necks also have exceptionally short hackle barbs relative to feather length, making them a great buy. I burn up a lot of size 12 to 16 Soft-Hackle in my commercial tying, and I can use the center two-thirds of a Whiting neck for palmering size 12 to 16 Woolly Worms and Mini-Buggers.
Hen necks from other breeders yield few hackles for these sizes; their hackle is mostly larger. I do tie many sizable Buggers, but buying hen saddles , not hen necks , is the economical way to buy high-quality soft hackle in larger sizes. The feather count in the size 12 to 16 range is the best in the business. A typical saddle has hackle for Buggers ranging from size 2 to size I primarily fish sizes 6, 8, and A Size 12 Mini-Bugger is my standard for spooky, clear-water trout.
In dirty water, I jump to size 8. For big-river trout and smallmouth bass, I like size 6. I often add a brass conehead for more flash and a fast vertical drop. Tail is black marabou over olive marabou with gold flash. Abdomen is olive dubbing with grizzly hackle. Thorax is black dubbing with black hackle. You can easily create multi-tone Buggers in a range of colors.
A single Schlappen feather is long enough to densely hackle an entire Woolly. Whiting cock saddles often have some Schlappen suitable for hackling Woollies in size 12 and smaller. Most other Schlappen is suitable for size 8 and larger. Schlappen can be purchased strung, in dyed and natural colors; the bulk of this material is best suited to large Buggers. Rooster Breast , especially from Whiting, can be excellent Soft-Hackle.
Whiting markets Chickabou patches from the undersides of roosters. For palmering, the useful feathers are not the small marabou-like plumes located at the rump end of the patch, but the attached breast feathers. Hackle color, mottling, softness, and barb length are more critical considerations. The soft, webby hackle moves wonderfully, and stem bulk is minimal.
Soft-Hackle for Legging Nymphs You can add inherent movement to any nymph pattern by palmering hen neck hackle over the thorax. Nymphs can be hackled in the round, or hackle can be trimmed or collapsed under a wing case to project from just the underside of the nymph. If you order feathers from me and are not happy for whatever reason, please contact me right away and I will resolve the problem.
I don't want you to be unhappy with anything you purchase. Thanks, David Comparing Neck, Saddle, and Matuka Feathers. American Rooster Saddles. Soft Hackle with Chickabou. Home Just In! Woolly Bugger Hackle Like many of you, the first fly I learned to tie was a woolly bugger. Woolly Buggar tied by Rich Osthoff Feathers for Tying Woolly Buggers Most all feathers you'll find packaged and labeled "bugger packs" are going to be a big let-down unless you know what you are looking for.
Body Hackle for Woolly Bugger Patterns Whiting Hen Feathers Whiting hen necks have exceptionally short hackle barbs relative to feather length, that means more turns around the body and a buggier, more densely hackled fly. They are the feathers from the base of the cape.
These buggar packs are a terriffic value! Not quite as long as true sclappen, the feathers range from 5 to 9 inches. The stems on these feathers are flexable, perfect for turning around a hook. The feather length ranges from 3 to 4 inches, giving you plenty of turns around the body.
And if you're looking for bright colors to fish in muddy waters, try a few of the bright colors. These are the feathers are found on the chest of a Whiting rooster. The feather length ranges from 3 to 4 inches. The feathers are long with a slight taper, giving your bugger a nice look. The feather length ranges from 3 to 7 inches. Online customersupport. Log in Create account. Log in. Create account. New Products. New product. From 3,50 EUR. Whiting Bugger Pack. Manufacturer: Whiting. Two 7 x 20 cm pieces.
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