turkey feathers

A friend of mine gave me a bag loaded with turkey feathers of the one he shot. These feathers are small in size, a dark brown, and a little shiney. I dont know which kind of feather this is on the turkey, I am thinking the breast possibly? But my question is does anyone know of any good flies that use turkey feathers for material? I am mainly looking for some small nymphs or streamers because as of now I am fishing for erie steelhead, and I could use a few more nymphs so I thought that this might be a good resource of feathers. I am also getting a bulk load of peasant tails...O lucky me

Smallie14;
You can sub the Turkey for Pheasant and tye a nice PT nymph. I think you actually get a buggier looking nymph. You may want to still use Pheasant barbs for the tail as the Turkey barbs aren't as strong.

[billknepp]

The feathers you discribe...are great for the wingcase's on nymph's,legs and beard's on nymph's and wet's alike...also work well for Salmon wets even married wings.....alot of great flies can be tied with such a feather...that shiney irridesience is like peacock...very irresistable to the fishy's....enjoy the exploreing...!!!!

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