Just started to try fly tying. I am wondering what to do with the left over marabou after you have trimmed the end part off, making the tail on a woolley bugger. Seems like there is a lot of “good stuff” left, but with the trim making the ends all the same length, it does make a good tail for another fly.
When I tie buggers, I twist the butt ends and wrap that for the body. Saves time and looks pretty good.
btw, welcome to the forum.
Regards,
Scott
You can also use it for a shaggy nymph dubbing. Just tear it into short bits and dub it onto the thread or use a dubbing loop.
Compost pile.
Stip it off the spine and use it for tails on smaller flies. I do it that way for small bluegill flies.
Just color me “cheap”. I will strip side sections from the stem and stack them until I accumulate a good size clump and then put it to use. 
Looks darn good,great idea!
After using the tip of a marabou feather for tailing material, I will often clip of a section of the stem to get rid of the “cut/flattened” end of the feather…then pinch both sides of the remaining feather tips together, and tie that in as a tail on the next/future fly.
Thanks from the newbee, for all the fine suggestions.
I thought of baking it into a cake and sending to my X-wives but figured that would be a wast of good feathers. I do the same as scottp.
(So I sent the feathers from my birds that had poo on them instead)
Huh!
I love everyone of my former wives.
<BR>Huh!<BR>I love every one of my former wives.
