Whiting Chickabou Patch - these are marabou like feathers, but they are much finer and more delicate than traditional turkey marabou, which tends to be too large and coarse for many flies. And because it's from a chicken numerous patterns and markings are available to enhance its effectiveness, particularly grizzly and grizzly dyed olives, brown and bright colors. The color patterns of the black laced white patterns, which are unique to Whiting Farms, provide an unusual color marking of white tips and black bases to the Chickabou. When dyed this black laced white offers an enticing splash of color at the fiber tips to create interest and uniqueness to any fly. Chickabou is therefore often superior in action and application to turkey marabou.

Chickabou can be used in two basic ways. When tied on at the rear of the fly Chickabou provides an exceptionally alive appearing tail for damsel patterns, dragon flies and smaller woolly buggers.
When tied onto the body of the fly, either sparely or generously, an incredibly alive breathing and undulating motion of the Chickabou occurs in even the slightest water movement. An example of a generous application of Chickabou would be leech patterns or full bodied marabou flies for bass and pan fish. Sparse application examples would be throats on nymphs, pectral fins on sculpin flies, and anything requiring some aliveness to the fly. Nothing is buggier than Whiting Farms Chickabou.

Whiting Chickabou Patch features:

• Marabou like chicken feathers, but more delicate than turkey feathers
• Fine and soft fibers
• Use as a tail material for small Woolly Buggers, shrimp imitations, damsel & dragon fly patterns and other wet flies
• Try also as a front hackle for small tube flies
• Patch size approximately 12 x 9 cm
• Feather length 3 - 6 cm
• Fiber length 1 - 2,5 cm