Tips on marabou

I need some tips on tying marabou... My jigs are comming out clean but I'm wondering how much marabou and how to gathher the right amount... Aer you guys using several parts of the feather... Any secrets or tips would be great my jigs arnt consistant on the tails and I don't want to trim them. Also I have had a few twist while I'm tying?? Thanks guys

Fly-Tying: Marabou Tail

The majority of the tails, I tie, are with marabou fluffs. Marry two together, cut to fit, and then lash down. Fluffs are cheaper and easier to use (IMO).

Thanks guys...

try hackle. i use to use marabou then skip helped me with the hackle now thats all i tie

Take the marabou off the stem and always do this unless the stem is so thin it will not matter. I take probably 95% or more of my marabou off the stem. I would say with normal blood marabou about one feather each jig. Some have more and some less, but most one will do and I don't use the very end, but I do save it for tiny jigs and flies.

Stack you marabou as you pull if off the stem as I guess I just take maybe 1/2" off at a time along the stem. Once stacked enough pinch it together about where you want to cut it. Cut the end you tore off the stem to get what length you want and wrap your thread around and wrap it enough to have some from the head to where it will stop. This first layer is not like so you can't see through it. One little thing I do is unlike hackle where I start right up against the head, with marabou I start maybe 1/8" away from the head to trap it and wind back away from the head. Once as far back as the finish will be look at you jig from the bottom to see if you hook is in the right place or if it spun a little. If it spun this is the time to straighten it, Pinch it tight, then wrap tight until back to the head and maybe a time back to the other way and back to the head again. Enough so to spin it would be very hard.

Then finish your jig.

Skip

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Originally Posted by skiptomylu

Take the marabou off the stem and always do this unless the stem is so thin it will not matter. I take probably 95% or more of my marabou off the stem. I would say with normal blood marabou about one feather each jig. Some have more and some less, but most one will do and I don't use the very end, but I do save it for tiny jigs and flies.

Stack you marabou as you pull if off the stem as I guess I just take maybe 1/2" off at a time along the stem. Once stacked enough pinch it together about where you want to cut it. Cut the end you tore off the stem to get what length you want and wrap your thread around and wrap it enough to have some from the head to where it will stop. This first layer is not like so you can't see through it. One little thing I do is unlike hackle where I start right up against the head, with marabou I start maybe 1/8" away from the head to trap it and wind back away from the head. Once as far back as the finish will be look at you jig from the bottom to see if you hook is in the right place or if it spun a little. If it spun this is the time to straighten it, Pinch it tight, then wrap tight until back to the head and maybe a time back to the other way and back to the head again. Enough so to spin it would be very hard.

Then finish your jig.

Skip

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thanks skip...

if you have trouble with the marabou you can get it alittle wet so it will stick together, then its alittle easier to manage

Yes also can tame it when the static gets bad in the winter with some of the little white things your wife puts in the dryer to make stuff smell better and remove the static from you close. You can use one that the wife has already used so no need to get one out of her box, just ask here to save them for you or give them to you in place of trowing them away.

I use this and the wt it way too depending on what I am doing and what the marabou is doing.

Skip

just pay attention what everyone is telling you. these guys been at it for yrs. and u will be a pro in few mths lol.