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Fly Tying: Natural Feathers & Hackle
All natural feathers & hackle are listed on this page. The links below will bring you directly to a specific product.
Marabou
Necks
Saddles
Strung Hackle
Duck
Goose
Guinea
Ostrich
Partridge
Peacock
Pheasant
Turkey
Marabou - Strung Blood Quill
$2.25
Our best selling marabou! This marabou is the blood quill. It is approximately 3.5" to 4.5" long, 1/4 oz. per package, and useful for virtually all your marabou needs!
Marabou - Select Plumes (12 Piece)
$1.50
Great for spey collars. Select marabou has the longest feathers available with long barbs and a heavy stem. 12/pack.
Marabou - Woolly Bugger
$1.95
Combine this with our woolly bugger chenille, or use this super webby feather for the perfect bugger! Strung, 1/8 oz. per package.
Marabou - Grizzly
$2.50
This small grizzly chicken marabou is also known as grizzly chickabou. The natural barring looks great on wooly buggers and smaller flies. More feathers than a marabou patch.
FH Dry Fly Rooster Necks
$3.95
These are indian necks. They come from a physically small bird. Although the feathers are not long, they are naturally dry with very stiff barbs. A very good value.
Neck - Keough's Tyer's Grade Dry Fly Capes
$31.95
LIMITED AVAILABILITY
An exceptional grade hackle at an affordable price. Be assured this cape will tie the maximum amount of flies for the least amount of money. This product has flexible stems, great barb density, and excellent feather counts from size 4 to size 22 and smaller. Please enjoy the pleasures of tying with this new tyer's grade cape.
Whiting's Hebert Miner Rooster Dry Fly Cape
$42.00
Bronze Grade
Whiting's Rooster Dry Fly Cape
$54.00
Bronze ($54), Silver* ($80)
Whiting's Brahma Hen Cape
$10.00
Gray Partridge Substitute
Cream Badger w/Mottle Gray Corner Pieces - Natural and Dyed Colors
Whiting's American Rooster Cape
$26.00
Whiting's American Hen Saddle
$10.00
For Soft Hackle Collars, Bass Poppers, Tails, Burnt Wings and Mayfly Wings
Black Laced White Colors
Saddles - Soft Hackle Hen Saddle Patches
$4.95
One of the most versatile products. Great for nymph collars, legs and tails, as well as soft hackle flies and crawdad claws. The speckled brown is especially good as a partridge substitute.
FH Grizzly Soft Hackle
$3.50
Rounded tipped feathers from Hen Saddles. Loose.
Starling Skin
$6.50
Wet Fly Hackle.
Saddles - Keough Hen Saddle Patches
$12.95
Hen saddles are great for paired tails for poppers and bass bugs. Also ideal for traditional wets, steelhead, and salmon flies. The best Matuka feather on the skin - each patch has lots of webby feathers.
Whiting's Brahma Hen Soft Hackle w/ Chickabou
$12.00
Provides 2 distinct types of feathers for subsurface flies, each with a multitude of applications. Includes tips for each on the package. All are Dyed over Mottled Gray
Available in:
Natural Mottled Gray
Olive
Black
Pale Yellow
Dyed Natural Brown
Whiting's American Hackle Hen Soft Hackle w/ Chickabou
$12.00
Gold Grade
Provides 2 distinct types of feathers for subsurface flies, each with a multitude of applications. Includes tips for each on the package.
Black laced Brown
Whiting's Eurohackle Saddles
$33.00
Made popular by the Kenny Abrames Flat-wing style patterns. Solid color on long narrow feathers.
Colors: Natural Ghost Barred White, Dyed Black, Olive, White
Whiting's Eurohackle Grizzly Saddles
$33.00
Made popular by the Kenny Abrames Flat-wing style patterns. Grizzly pattern on long narrow feathers. The R&D colors are limited time only, so get them while you can!
Colors: R&D Natural Grizzly, R&D Grizzly Burnt Orange, R&D Grizzly Blood Red, R&D Grizzly Golden Yellow, Grizzly Golden Olive, Grizzly Mint Green
Saddles - Dyed over White Genetic Premium Saddle Patches
$22.00
Long feathers make this a popular item for large saltwater patterns and for palmering buggers.
Saddles - Dyed Grizzly Saddle Patches
$23.95
Premium grade saddles with long narrow feathers.
Saddles - Premium Rooster Saddle Patches
$21.95
These beautifully dyed premium saddles are the best for large streamers and palmering wooly buggers.
Saddles - Keough's Grizzly Rooster Saddle Patches
$25.95
LIMITED AVAILABILITY
These beautifully dyed premium grizzly ssaddles are prized by tyers for tying large streamers as well as palmering hackle for wooly buggers.
Saddles - Whiting Pro Grade Deceiver Saddle
$14.00
A perfect taper and size for deceivers and streamers. Great collar hackle.
Saddles - Whiting Pro Grade Grizzly Variant Streamer Saddles
$14.95
Long Wide Webby feathers
Whiting's American Rooster Saddle
$13.00
Saddles - Streamer Rooster Saddle
$7.95
A medium length domestic saddle that is great for streamers. Ideal for Lefty's deceivers.
Saddles - Economy Dyed Saddle Patches
$15.95
A great value!
Saddles - Woolly Bugger Saddles
$16.95
Hard to find saddles for size 6-10 hackles.
Saddles - Indian Rooster Saddle Patches
$4.95
If you have an interest in winged streamers, these saddles are the coolest. Hackles are narrow, stiff, and have a good taper. Use for small wooly buggers and large dry flies.
Whiting's Hebert Miner Rooster Dry Fly Saddle
$35.00
Silver Grade
Whiting's Saddle Hackle 100 Pack
$14.50
From the Whiting Genetic Line of Roosters
Available in Sizes:
8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22
Whiting Farms most popular product is pre-sized for your convenience and guarantees you at least 100 flies, making this one of the best values in all of fly tying.
Whiting's Wooly Bugger Pack
$14.00
Bugger Pack feathers offer the tier an extremely long and naturally tapered feather with super-fine barbs, tapered webbing and supple quill. This type of feather is perfect for palmering woolly bugger style flies of all sizes.
Whiting's Streamer/Deceiver Pack
$10.00
Whiting’s Streamer/Deceiver Packs contain the perfectly shaped (tapered) feathers for all streamer tying, whether fresh or saltwater. The stiff quill, strong barbs and ample-webbing make this an extremely durable feather for all streamer applications.
Whiting's Tailing Packs
$14.00
Nothing compares to the natural fiber of a Coq de Leon rooster for tailing on dry flies. We hand select every patch for our tailing packs.
Approx 4 dozen usable feathers/pack
Strung Chinese Rooster Saddle Hackle
$4.50
Approximately 1/4 oz. and 5" to 7" long. Used for tails, wings, throats, collwars, and palmered hackles. Good for streamers, wets, bass, and saltwater flies. Great for wooly buggers. This is one of the top ten essential fly tying materials.
Strung Chinese Rooster Saddle Hackle 1oz
$15.50
Approximately 1 oz. and 5" to 7" long. Used for tails, wings, throats, collwars, and palmered hackles. Good for streamers, wets, bass, and saltwater flies. Great for wooly buggers. This is one of the top ten essential fly tying materials.
Strung Wooly Bugger Saddle Hackle
$4.50
Approximately 1/4 oz. and 6" to 7" long. Just like it's name implies, great for wooly buggers. Great natural colors.
Strung Deceiver Hackle
$3.95
Wider, domestic saddle hackle that is used specifically for Lefty Kreh's deceivers. Approximately 1/4 oz. 5" to 6" in length
Strung Schlappen
$4.25
Schlappen - not only fun to say but fun to use. The longest, webbiest feather you'll find! Key ingredient in spey and saltwater flies. Approximately 1/4 oz of 6" to 7" long, soft, solid web.
Strung Neck Hackle
$2.75
Large, wide hackles, 3" to 5" long. Good for streamers, bass, and saltwater flies. Solid or naturally barred. Approximately 1/4 oz.
Strung Saltwater Neck Hackle
$3.95
Great for Tarpon and Bass Flies. Aproximately 1/4 oz. and longer than standard neck hackle.
FH Neck Hackle Mini Packs
$1.25
An inexpensive way to get a good color assortment. These are packaged from streamer rooster necks. Good for streamers, bass, and saltwater flies.
Whiting's Birdfur
$6.00
It looks like fur, but it's really a feather! Nine plus years in development, Whiting's Spey line offers the tier an all-new economical way to use natural and long fibers to enhance large flies. Great for Streamers, Shrimp, Buggers, Leaches, & More.
Wood Duck - Black and White
$3.95
These finely barred, lemon yellow flank feathers have alternating bands of black and white tips. A must for many popular salmon fly patterns.
3 lefts, 3 rights
Natural Only
Wood Duck - Lemon Barred
$3.95
Prime lemon barred flank feathers used on many classic Catskill dries, nymphs, and wet flies.
12 feathers
Natural Only
Duck - Teal Barred Flank Feathers
$2.50
Smaller than mallard flank, but with much bolder and cleaner barring. Some uses include salmon flies and cheeks on saltwater streamers.
Duck - Mallard Barred Flank
$1.50
Finely barred black and white feathers used for legs, throats, tails, wings, and wing cases on nymphs, wets, and dries.
Duck - Bronze Mallard Flank
$1.75
These bronze-tinged feathers come from the back of the mallard drake and are used for traditional salmon flies, dry fly wings, nymph legs, wing cases, tails...
1 Pair
Duck - Gadwall Barred Flank
$2.49
Larger than teal flank and somewhat darker. Their long fine fibers are excellent for collars on spey flies. A great alternative to mallard for use on streamers and wets.
12 per package
Duck - Mallard Drake Belly
$1.50
Dave Whitlock's choice for cheeks on his famous sheepshad pattern. Loose - 4" x 6" bag.
Natural Only
Duck - Mallard McGinty Quill
$1.50
A small, naturally iridescent blue quill from the wing speculum of the mallard duck.
6 lefts, 6 rights
Natural Only
Duck Quill
$1.95
Used for wings and tails on many standard wet fly patterns.
2 matched pairs
Duck - Mallard Whole Wing Pair
$4.95
Beautifully matched wing pairs. Perfect for tying classic wet flies.
Natural Only
Duck C.D.C. (Cul-De-Canard) Super Select Feathers
$4.50
The highest quality available. Neatly stacked for protection. 50 feathers/pack.
Duck C.D.C. (Cul-De-Canard) Puffs
$2.50
Softer and more supple than regular C.D.C. Many uses such as midges, emergers, and compara duns. 36 per package.
Duck C.D.C. (Cul-De-Canard) Feathers
$2.50
C.D.C. or duck butt feathers have spawned a new generation of emerger and dry fly patterns. Approximately 50 per package.
Goose Biots (Stripped Goose)
$1.25
Flies look great with this durable biot. Great selection of nymph colors! Favorite on the prince nymph. 4 strips per package or assortment pack ($3.95).
Goose Shoulders
$1.75
Big and soft. Super for married wings on salmon flies! 6 per package.
Guinea Feathers
$1.50
Black and white spotted. Great for cheeks on bass and saltwater flies or as a speckle soft hackle. Available as:
4" x 6" bag of loose feathers $1.50
4" x 6" bag of strung feathers $3.75
Guinea Skins
$23.95
Black and white spotted. Great for cheeks on bass and saltwater flies. Natural Only
Ostrich Plumes
$2.95
Premium plumes with long fluffy herl. Popular for gilled nymphs, tails, bodies, tentacles, and salmon fly butts. Very versatile.
Hungarian Partridge Loose Body Feathers
$2.50
Assortment of popular mixed partridge feathers. Very popular for soft hackles and wet flies. 4" x 6" bag.
Hungarian Partridge Whole Natural Skin
$19.95
Natural undyed skins. The ultimate soft hackle fly material in various shades with beautiful natural speckles.
Hungarian Partridge Whole Dyed #1 Skin
$29.95
Top quality grade #1 skins. Soft speckled hackle. A must for nymph and soft hackly tyers. You won't find them any better!
Peacock Blue Body Feathers
$2.25
Deep blue used for cheeks and collars. 10/pkg.
Peacock Strung Herl
$1.50
Peacock is an unbeatable combination of bronze/olive/brown color and soft sheen. Its use almost assures the success of any pattern it gets added to. Strung Herl that is approximately 5" to 7" long. Natural Available in standard or 1/4oz packages ($3.95)
Peacock Strung Jumbo Herl
$6.95
Incredibly long and durable, this herl is perfect for adding the natural irridescence of peacock to streamers, baitfish patterns and billfish flies. Length varies from 14" to 18" long!
Natural Only
Shown next to standard size for comparison.
Peacock Herl Brushes
$2.49
Peacock herl twisted with wire. 3/pkg.
Peacock Swords
$2.50
For tailing and winging. 6/pkg.
Peacock Eye Sticks
$2.50
The eyes provide the fullest herl from the peacock. Peacock is an unbeatable combination of bronze/olive/brown color and soft sheen. Its use almost assures the success of any pattern it gets added to.
Colors 6/pkg, Natural 1/pkg ($0.75)
Peacock Stripped and Dyed Eyes
$2.75
These make gorgeous quill bodies for all nymphs and dries. Carefully bleached to remove the fuzzy herl, then dyed. Packed 3 feathers per bag.
Ringneck Pheasant Tail Clumps
$6.95
A top ten essential fly tying material. When dyed, these tails have a deep, rich color. Endless uses for tying.
Ringneck Pheasant Tail Feather Pair
$2.95
One pair of tail feathers dyed in famous nymph colors. They need a 20" bag!
Ringneck Natural Pheasant Skin (no tail)
$11.95
A great price for a huge variety of feathers for nymphs and wets. Also popular for artists looking for natural feathers.
Natural Only
Ringneck Dyed Pheasant Skin (no tail)
$11.95
Wow! If a natural pheasant has more colors than a stained glass window, imagine our dyed colors! A great assortment of usable feathers.
Lady Amherst Pheasant Complete Neck
$11.95
For tails, cheeks, and wings. Brilliant white feathers with a contrasting black edge, or dyed in a choice of five vibrant colors to add a touch of elegance to your steelhead/salmon patterns. Also a great choice for nymph tailing material.
Available in: Natural, Black, Highlander Green, Hot Pink, Purple, Red, Yellow
Lady Amherst Pheasant Skin Grade 1 (no tail)
$24.95
**Limited Availability**
Commonly used for salmon and steelhead flies. Has a variety of uses with the full range of feathers. Head included.
Lady Amherst Pheasant Skin Grade 1 (no head no tail)
$14.95
**Limited Availability**
Commonly used for salmon and steelhead flies. Has a variety of uses with the full range of feathers.
Pheasant - Reeve's Skin
$26.95
For tyers who want the whole range of feathers. Lots of uses.
**Limited Availability**
Golden Pheasant Skin (no tail)
$13.95
The whole skin has many different feathers of bright, natural colors. For tyers who want the whole range of feathers. Lots of uses.
Golden Pheasant Skin (no head no tail)
$7.95
For tyers who want the whole range of feathers. Lots of uses.
Golden Pheasant Complete Neck
$9.95
For those wishing to use both the crest and tippets. At the base of each "tippet" feather, you'll find a small, fuzzy "gimp" feather. Use them as wings for incredibly realistic caddis emergers.
Natural
Dyed Black
Golden Pheasant Crests
$7.95
The crest only. Great topper for salmon, steelhead, and tracitional flies. A necessity.
