I am looking for the name of the small downy feather that you find on the underside of some regular feathers like marabou.
I have looked in some books, but there is no mention of it.
Thanks for your help!
chris
Name this feather
I am looking for the name of the small downy feather that you find on the underside of some regular feathers like marabou.
I have looked in some books, but there is no mention of it.
Thanks for your help!
chris
Philoplume? Just a guess. The other option is chickabou associated with hen saddles.
Kelly.
Tight Lines,
Kelly.
"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home."
Roderick Haig-Brown, "Fisherman's Spring"
George
<have heard of them referred to as "after shaft" ... but I like "George" better>
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
George works for me!
George works for me too, but considering the comparitively small size of the feather, could we call it "Little George?" 8TOriginally Posted by Betty Hiner
Aftershaft is the usual term, but George has a nice ring to it. Considering the many uses of this fine bit of plummage adding "Little" to the dignified name of George might be considered disparaging by some (though I am not one of them). I think George is a good fit. All in favor of George, say "Aye".
REE
Happiness is wading boots that never have a chance to dry out.
When I see this feather at the base of a pheasant body feather, I call it "gimp".
There is a nice little wet fly tied with this feather called " The Gimp Fly".
"As far down the river as he could see, the trout were rising, making circles on the surface of the water, as though it were starting to rain."- E.H., The Big Two Hearted River
I didn't know feathers had names.
But George sounds good to me, too.
How about Boy George for the small ones?
Sonny Edmonds
"If I don't teach them, how will those Grand Kids learn to fish?"
Lesson 1: What catches fish Vs: What catches fisherman's money.
And whatever you do don't go buy "George" feathers.... they are on every single body feather of the bird and are thrown away by 99% of the tyers.
Those George feathers make great hackle on really small wet flies, and when wound around the hook shank make great bodies on larger wets. I've heard, but never tried it, that you can make a pretty good trout pellet fly using George feathers.
Happiness is wading boots that never have a chance to dry out.
George and a bunch of his brothers George make an outstanding lake leech...
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