The biggest thing I would say is don't cut your marabou off at the tail end because it will make a square end and you want a more natural end so cut the end you are tying in.

Other than that enjoy and watch your tying get better and better. Oh and I think sometime we try to make things with too much going on and sometime simple is best.

On the last one personally I would have a little more marabou on that tail because when it gets wet it will streamline a lot. Don't want to over do it either, but just enough. Don't know if you are tying your marabou with stem still in or if you are taking the feathers off the stem to tie it. I do most of the time take it off the stem to tie it as you will get better action that way.

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