MISCELLANEOUS   FEATHERS


OSTRICH :
Ostrich feathers with long fluffy herl.
Great for gilled nymphs, bodies, tails, tentacles and salmon fly butts.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Grade 1
(whole plume, about 20")
€ 4.50 AUT1.(color)
Grade 2
(whole plume, about 12")
€ 2.70 AUT2.(color)
Per 2" section
(40 ΰ 50 herls grade 1)
€ 0.90 AUTP.(color)


PREMIUM OSTRICH :
A quality of plume between grade 1 (more and more difficult to obtain !) and grade 2.
Approx. 30 cm long (1 ') with very long thick herls.
A very good value for money.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Premium ostrich € 3.90 AUTPREM.(color)


WOODCOCK :
Chest feathers are used to tye caddis wings and wet flies.
Wing feathers are used for wet flies wings.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Packet
(about 30 breast feathers)
brown € 2.90 BECA
photo Per pair wings brown € 3.80 BEPA


SNIPE :
Wing quills are mostly used for caddis wings.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Per pair wings brown € 4.25 SNIP


JACKDAW :
Wing quills are used for black caddis wings or black thoraxes.
Grey scalp feathers are tied to imitate nymph legs (throats).

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Pair of wings natural € 3.80 CHOA
photo Whole grey scalp natural € 4.25 CHOT


CONDOR SUBSTITUTE :
Condor fibers are used to tie nymph's bodies, dry flies and small wet flies.
Resistant, these fibers add a webby stripe when used to ring bodies.
As real condor is unobtainable, this is of course a substitute.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Per 4" section € 3.05 CONDS.(color)


CROW :
A little darker than jackdaw.
Same uses as for wing quills.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Pair of wings natural € 3.35 CORNA
photo Packet of 4 wing quills natural € 1.80 CORNQ


EMU :
Natural shades (beige to grey).
Softer than goose biots to tie antennaes, legs and tails.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Emu feather Natural (beige to grey) € 2.70 EMEU


STARLING :
The flight quills are a very popular wing material for split wing dry fly patterns such as "blue winged olive", 'blue bottle', "blue dun"…

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Whole skin
with wings and tail
Natural € 8.95 SANP
Whole skin with tail
but without wings
Natural € 5.30 SANQ


JAY :
The barred blue coverts are used for Invicta hackles and for some sea-trout and salmon patterns.
The flight quills give a nice dark grey winging material (bwo, pale morning dun...).

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Pair of wings Natural € 6.65 GEAI
- Whole skin with head,
wings and tail
Natural € 17.50 GEAIP


GROUSE :
Body plumage dark brown speckled for hackles or sedge wings.
Very popular.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Packet (about 30 feathers) dark brown speckled € 2.50 GROU
photo Pair of wings dark brown speckled € 4.65 GROUL


IBIS :
Substitute.
Dyed red feathers for tails of Butcher, Alexandra… and saltwater flies.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Packet of 10 feathers pink/red € 2.70 IBIS


GOOSE :
Goose quills (stiff fibers) are used for large quill-winged dries, for nymph cases or for little nymph bodies.
Goose shoulders are primarily used for married wings on salmon flies.
Goose biots (stripped goose) are mostly used for legs, perfect nymph "V" tails and antennae (stone fly nymphs).

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Pair of quills
(left/right)
€ 2.15 OIEQ.(color)
photo Pair of shoulders feather
(left/right)
€ 2.10 OIEE.(color)
photo Biots
(4 strips per packet)
€ 2.10 OIEB.(color)
Biots "combos"
(10 mixed colors)
combo € 4.55 OIEBC


MAGPIE :
Metallic green tail.
Metallic blue coverts and white flight quills.
Great for black sedge's wings, beetle flies and some sea-trout patterns.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Whole tail black with green reflection € 3.90 PIEQ
photo Pair of wings natural € 3.55 PIEL


GUINEA-FOWL :
Dark grey feathers with white spots.
Great for cheeks on bass and saltwater flies.
Also used in many salmon flies and some lures.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Natural feathers
(all sizes) per 3 gr packet
natural € 2.80 PIPN
Dyed feathers
(all sizes) per 3 gr packet
€ 3.05 PIPT.(color)
photo Natural whole skin natural € 27.50 PIPEN


MOORHEN :
Wing quills are used for dark caddis wings or for dry flies wings.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Pair of wings natural € 4.75 MOOR


SCHLAPPEN :
About 7".
Traditionally used for large salmon, steelhead and Spey flies, we now include these feathers in saltwater patterns (Stu Apte tails, for example)..

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Packet of 3 grs € 2.90 SCHL.(color)


TOUCAN :
Substitute, of course !
Little orange feathers for salmon flies.

Photo Product Color Price Reference
photo Packet of about 50 feathers yellow/orange € 1.80 TOUCAN