Marabou Soft-Hackled Nymphs

Marabou Soft-Hackled Nymphs have more action and movement created by the water currents and the drift of the fly than most other nymphs. The chickabou or marabou feathers are the softest available for tying tails and soft-hackled collars. Grizzly Marabou is actually from a chicken so it’s technically Chickabou. Marabou feathers are from turkeys and you want to use Blood Marabou as the feather fibers are denser and wider creating more fullness to the hackle and movement in the water. The ostrich herl ribbing also has movement and creates the appearance of gills that mayfly nymphs have. Fish these flies dead drifted, stripped, swung, twitched or with a Figure-8 retrieve. All of these methods will give the fly a different appearance in the water and imitate larger mayfly nymphs like Green and Brown Drakes or Isonychia. In fact, I was tying this fly pattern one time in Townsend, Tennessee many years ago at a fly fishing festival and Lefty Kreh sat down and watched me tie it. After I was done and I demonstrated the movement it would have in the water he looked at me and said, “Nice Isonychia nymph”. It doesn’t get anymore legit than that.
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[@kerrypitt9789]

For many new tyers , using the correct amount of marabou, far too often we see lumpy lifeless clumps of marabou! Videos like this one are a valuable resource thank you. Great pattern here !

[@kenb4685]

Gidday. Fantastic work. Thankyou.

[@zafotbeeb]

Neat little fly except for the hook. A straight shank , down eye hook will greatly increase your hook ups.

[@mikelundrigan2285]

No bodkin with a hole to push your hackle? Use an empty pen tube!

[@kerrypitt9789]

Do you dye your own marabou?

[@mcgeeflyfishing]

Thanks for asking. I use Grizzly Marabou from Hareline for mottled tails and hackle collars, Wooly Bugger Marabou from Wapsi for solid colors and also Mini Marabou aka Chickabou from Hareline for solid colors.