Originally Posted by
skiptomylu
They look fine, good job! I have to ask though are you tying in the marabou in with the stem still in? I usually do not have a stem in my marabou except for maybe 5% of the time as only if the stem is so very thin will I use it. I take he barbules off the stem a bit at a time and stack it until I get enough for my tail. Then I pinch it to the length I want and cut the rest off from the end I pulled off the stem. Never cut tips! Anyway that is mostly how fly tiers use it and where I learned much of what I know. There was not all the easy to find info out there wheni started tying. Thankfully for a couple of fly tying sites I learned a lot from reading their lessons and just all I could find.