Hey you coming along just great!

Important thing said above about right and wrong way to tie. If it works for you then it's fine. When I started tying jigs with hackle I saw guys say I use to tips or I use 3 tips. I didn't want to do what they did and when I use multiple tips they just wouldn't behave the way I wanted them to. I had never seen anyone do what I do and when I tried it I like it even better than others so that is how I went at some point and don't want to go back. I also came up with making my little V's to use more of each feather making better use with less waste and on top of that all the little individual barbules stand alone and almost look like hair and I thought much better so that is how it came to be that I had my own tail tying method.

One thing I know lot of guys don't like long tails and I do (my customers will gladly tell you how well this catches fish. Then there is the make it thin so it has more action, but we added action when we pulled off the feathers to tie in like this so I wouldn't listed to people without trying it your self on the water. I have never had a problem with long and thick marabou tails. I catch all the fish I want to and so do my customers. It's mostly a head thing and why try anything different if we are going to listen to all the rules of what it is supposed to be?

Nice work and it will get better,
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