Turkeybou
 

Anyone have a good use for that marabou looking fluff around the base
of smaller turkey feathers around the tail?

Wayne
to fish is human....to release Divine!!!

Turkeybou
 

Dubbing.

"Wayne" wrote in message
om...
Anyone have a good use for that marabou looking fluff around the base
of smaller turkey feathers around the tail?

Wayne
to fish is human....to release Divine!!!

Turkeybou
 

These are called either the aftershaft, or foreshaft feathers..can't
remember which. the fibers are so soft that they work well in leech
patterns.


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Turkeybou
 

Anyone have a good use for that marabou looking fluff around the base
of smaller turkey feathers around the tail?

Budding wings on nymphs and emergers.

vince

Turkeybou
 

"Wayne" wrote in message
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Anyone have a good use for that marabou looking fluff around the base
of smaller turkey feathers around the tail?

Wayne
to fish is human....to release Divine!!!


Gills for nymphs like the stonefly. Or was it a dobsonfly? Anyway, I think
it was in a back issue of Fly Tyer (within the last couple of years) where I
read an article about this.