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Mike's Jailbird Marabou: These are really cool! Featured in the Winter Issue of Fly Tyer. Feathers are blood marabou that is silk screened with a barred ( or jailbird ) pattern. Makes really cool spey hackle or can be used for wooly buggers or streamer wings. Colors; Olive/Black, Purple/Pink, Orange/Red, Chartreuse/Orange, Brown/Black. $3.50 a pack.

 

Cul de Chicken: This is a select patch of marabou from the breast of a genetic chicken. This is an extra fine marabou that is then treated with Watershed to give the feather added floation. Ideal sub for calf tail, use for parachutes, shucks or on emergers. Colors: Grizzly, White, Olive, Tan, Dun, Medium Dun or Olive. $6.00

 


American Hackle

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American Hackle is Whiting's Line of Saltwater and Streamer Hackle. This is a great product to use as a substitute for Chinese necks, as Bass Hackle for Saltwater or Streamer flies.

Colors Dyed by Hareline for Extra Vibrant Colors and Contrast!

Whiting Pro Grade Grizzly Variant Capes: These are beautiful saltwater grizzly capes. Ideal for tarpon, bass, or bonefish flies. Many bright colors can be used for steelhead and salmon flies as well. Soft feathers with a nice stem, make these ideal for all kinds of swimming patterns.

Colors: Chartreuse, Hot Orange, Grizzly, Olive, Pumpkin, Red, Tan, Yellow

Price: $25.00

 

 

 

 

 

Whiting Pro Grade Grizzly Variant Streamer Saddles: These are wide long feathers with a nice stem. Ideal for making longer flies. Each has a round tip and can be used as tails on poppers or for many saltwater patterns.

Colors: Chartruese, Hot Orange, Red, Grizzly, Tan, Yellow, Red, Pumpkin

Price: $15.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whiting Pro Grade Deceiver Saddles: These are ideal for streamers. These have round tips and a solid stem making them perfect for saltwater flies. Use for steelhead, salmon patterns or freshwater flies as well.

Colors: Red, White, Black, Chartreuse, Yellow, Hot Orange.

 

Price: $15.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Speckled Hen Backs: These are genetically raised pelts that are speckled and mottled. Most are gray over dyed. Useful for nymphs, soft hackles and collars. Will tie about 8-12. Colors: Chartreuse, Hot Orange, Natural, Olive and Brown. $6.75

 

 

 

 

Half Grizzly/Half Black Saddles: These are a dark grizzly saddle that contains some grizzly and some black. Many feathers have a metallic color to them. Use for dry fly hackle. Will tie 12-14-16 . Colors: Natural, Dyed Olive, Dyed Brown. $18.50

 

 

 

 

Wooly Bugger Saddles: Extra long feathers ( about 12-15"), these are wider feathers sized 6-10/ a few 12's. Great length, nice saddles. All dyed over white. Colors: Black, Olive or Borwn. $18.00

 

 

 

 


Dyed Ringneck Pheasant Skins: These are beautifully dyed full pelts that include the body, wings and capes. These pelts are loaded with metallic feathers that can be used for nymphs, salmon flies and trout patterns. Colors: Black, Orange, Olive, Yellow, Red. $20.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dyed Ringneck Pheasant Patches: They are back! For several years I have sold these patches and lost my source. I located a new source and I am again able to offer these patches. Dyed over saddles contain lots of interesting colors. Useful for spey hackle and Gartside sparrows.Choose from Orange, Purple, Olive, Claret, Flo Red, Black and Chartreuse. $5.50 each.

 

 

 

Silver Pheasants ( Body & Wings , No Tails) : These are prime skins hand selected by me. The flanks are used in New England Streamer Pattersn and are white with dark bars. Head and breast contains some metallic feathers. Grade 1: $50.00, Grade 2: $40.00

 

 

 


Hebert/Miner Pro Grade Dry Fly Capes: These are wonderful capes at a special price. These contain nice full feathers. Each cape will tie a full range of sizes. Choose from Brown, Black, Grizzly Variant, Dark Brown Dun, Medium Brown Dun, Ginger, Cream or Tanish Dun $25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hebert/Miner Bronze Grade Dry Fly Saddles: These are wonderful saddles at a special price. These contain long full feathers. Each saddle will tie mostly 12-16. Choose from Brown, Black, Grizzly Variant, Dark Brown Dun, Medium Brown Dun, Ginger or Grizzly Variant. $18.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hebert Dry Fly Saddle Dyed Coachman Brown: Nice Brown saddle dyed Coachman Brown. Use for Royal Wulffs, Coachman dries, Caddis flies. Ties 12-16. $22.50

 

 

 

 

Whiting Brahma Hen Combo Special: These are an ideal substitute for partridge. Use for soft hackle flies, nymphs and also for emergers. Feathers are soft gray mix with a white splash. Natural color only. Will tie a full range of sizes. Includes the cape and saddle. $13.00

 

 

 

 

Whiting Bird Fur: This is a sustitute for Heron and Blue Earred Pheasant. The feathers are a soft material that can be used for spey hackle or for shrimp and prawn type patterns. Colors: Chartreuse, Black, Purple, Gray, Brown, Claret, SD Blue. $7.00

 

 

 

 

Whiting Tailing Packs: This is the famous Coq -De-Leon Material. These are stiff shoulder hackles which can be used for tails, spinner wings or wind the full feather to make skaters. Colors: Black, Light Pardo, Dark Pardo, Brown, Dyed Dun. $14.00

 

 

Whiting Variety Pack: This is a full gallon size zip lock bag full of hackle that we at Badger Creek like to call the "mystery meat package". You never know what these contain. Saddle trimmings, pieces of broken capes, loads of unusal things to use. A Great Bargin! $13.00

 

 


Striped and Dyed Peacock Eyes: These are peacock, stripped and dyed. Use for dry flies, herl bodied flies or flies which need quill bodies. Ideal for Red quills, H+L Variants in variant colors and more. Choose from Orange, Black, Olive and Yellow. $3.50

 

 

 

 

Jumbo Sized Peacock Herl: This is so big I can't fit it on the page! These herl strands are over 17"....no I am not kidding. Ideal for saltwater bugs or even for some really long trout flies that need herl. If you wanted the long stuff, this is it! $3.75

 

 


Dyed Peacock Herl: This is a large bundle of strung herl, dyed. By dying the colors the herl really stands out and becomes more vibrant and interesting. All dyed colors will keep the original type or green but have a different cast to them.Will liven up a large number of patterns. Colors: Flo Lime, Cerise, Black, Purple, Flo Blue. $3.75

Just In: Bleached Peacock: This is strung herl, bleached. The color becomes a soft tan. Use for caddis nymphs, as a body material or as a substitute for the very rare cameo peacock. $3.75

 

 

 

 

Legs On a Stick: These are pheasant quills knotted. Entire quill has bundles of legs pre knotted. Just clip and tye on. Makes great hopper patterns. Use for craneflies and also for stoneflies. Has natural brown/black bars. $4.50

 

 

 

 

Mallard Flanks: Finding good flanks for Joe's Smelt is darn near impossible. A fair number of Maine tyers have given up and substitute mallard. Use for wings, cheeks, as a tailing material. Pearl gray with light bars. $1.50

Mallard Dyed Wooduck: Use as a sub for Wooduck, Ideal for beginners or commerical tyers: $1.50

 

 

 

 

 

Canvas Back Feathers: These are used to make Joe's Smelt. These are an imitation of the original "Pintail" that was used to make Joe's Smelt. Originally, this fly used a Japanese flank feather that is now on an endangered list. These are flanks of canvasbacks that are trimmed and nearly identical to the original feathers. $5.00/pack ( about a dozen)

 

 

 

 

 

Bronze Mallard: It has been some time since I was able to find any of this material. Bronze mallard is used for spey flies and wet flies as a topping or veil. I matched 15 pairs and included a wide variety of sizes. You can tie the biggest of salmon flies and larger wets. $3.50

Badger Creek's Strung Spade Hackle: These are small hackles that are strung, ideal for spade hackle. Can be used to make tails. Also makes nice skater hackle. Colors: Golden Badger or Barred Dark Ginger. $1.50


Quills

I got some very nice salmon quills in. These are for married wings and are a bit unusal. Use them for making salmon flies or married wings.

Oak Turkey: Remember that really nice oak turkey we used to get? Well it's back..... and this is the good stuff. These are white marbled oak quills great for muddlers, strips wings, wing cases, hopper wings and wet flies. Nice matched quills. Natural: $5.50 Dyed Olive or Dyed Yellow: $6.00

 

Peacock Quills: Long used as a sub for Bustard, this is a nice quill with vivid markings. Select #1 quills, suitable for full dress wings. $6.50/pair.

 

 

 

White Tip Turkey( Not Shown): Long time favorite used for salon flies, has a wild turkey base with a small white stripe across the top. Use for married wings and wet flies. Nice edge with clean tops. $5.50 /pair

White Dyed Turkey Rounds: Use for samller salmon flies, these are white wing quills dyed various colors. Nice fibers with a good edge. Colors: Black, Red, White, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Green, Purple. $2.50/Pair

Guinea Hen Quills: Often used for many Ray Bergman patterns as a wet fly wing. Favored by Don Bastion. Paired quills with clean edges. Price is $2.50 a pair

Duck Quills: Used in classic patterns like the Trout Finn, these quills are ideal for all of your Ray Berman wets and Don Bastion patterns. Choose from Black, Orange, Yellow, Red, White, Natural, Green, Olive, Gray, Silver Doc Blue. $1.50 a pair

 

Ruffed Grouse Tail Clump: Full clump. Use these like pheasant tail and wind fibers for a body. Clip sections out for wet fly wings or cut out to make caddis wings. If you soak the quill, you can pull the center off the stem and use this for a condor substitute on nymphs. $4.50

 

 

 

 

 

 


Soft Hackle Materials:

 

Hungarian Partridges: I found a source that had a stock of these partridges for several years and bought the lot. These are a bit more tan and brown the American Huns or the Premium Huns I stock. Fibers are a bit finer. Includes body, cape, wings and tails. $16 each or 2 for $30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red Grouse : These popular feathers are available once again. Use for soft hackles, hackling nymphs, the uses are almost endless.

Small Packet of Grouse: $1.50

Matched Wings: $4.50

 

 

 

American Chukar Flank: These are very similar to red leg partridge/French Partridge. Often used on Irish Mayfly patterns, use these to make some really cool thorax dun mayfly patterns, makes excellent spinners or use for cheeks on streamer. Packet of loose flanks: $2.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select Hungarian Partridge Pelts: These great skins are once again available. Pelt size is somewhat larger than standard pelts. Full feathered pelt with head, body, wings, tails. Very nice. $35.00

 

 

 

 

 

Dyed Hungarian Partridge Skins: Select pelts dyed to some really nice colors. Use for nymphs, soft hackles, damsel flies. These are beautifully dyed. Colors: Bleached, Dyed Olive, Caddis Green, Caddis Orange, Brown. Use for substitutes for many soft hackle feathers that are difficult to locate. $25.00

Select Starling Pelt: This is a full starling pelt. Use for soft hackle flies. Contains spotted feathers with metallic green and black. Very nice skins. $7.00

 

 

 

 

From time to time I have nice substitutes and wings for some older soft hackle patterns, email me for more info. Mike

 

 

 

 


Henry's Fork Hackle: These are dubbing ropes made out of CDC. To use, just tie in, wrap and there you go. Very easy to use. Ideal for parachutes or as a hackle sub. Colors: Medium Dun or Grizzly. $4.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow! These is really nice stuff! These are hand selected premium CDC feathers. Each feather comes from a genetic farm raised duck.

 

Jumbo Premium Genetic CDC: This CDC is about twice the size of the average CDC feather. Can be used for spinners, wound as a parachute, palmer wrapped or as a collar. Fibers can be removed and used as a bundle. Natural Colors: White, Medium Dun, Dark Dun, Brown Dun, Light Ginger, Dyed Olive, Dyed Yellow, Dyed Light Dun, Dyed Black. $3.50 each

Use these for the Magic Tool Flies!

 

 

Premium Genetic CDC Puffs: Ideal for emergers, para-posts, midges, as a shuck or spinner wings. Fibers can be removed and used as a bundle. These are larger and fuller than standard puffs. Several very nice natural colors. Natural Colors: White, Medium Dun, Dark Dun, Brown Dun, Light Ginger, Dyed Hot Orange, Dyed Dark Dun. $3.50 each

 

 

 

 

Goose CDC: This product is my own and is available nowhere else! Natural Dun is a brown dun and it is an ideal match for BWO wings and for emergers. Fibers are somewhat longer than reg Cdc and is a bit nicer to use. Contains many of the " Type 1" Cdc feathers. White or Natural Dun. Larger package than standard Cdc. $1.75

Now also in White!

 

 



 


Email: Mike@eflytyer.com

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Mike Hogue / Badger Creek Fly Tying / 622 West Dryden Road, Freeville, NY 13068

Phone: 607-347-4946