Pheasant wings

[Fishnkilts]

Last night my neighbor brought over a pair of pheasant wings wondering if I could use them. I thanked him for them and they are attractive and even have some very beautiful small hackled feathers.

My question is, I have never heard or seen anyone use pheasant wings. Is there a good reason for that? Or are they useful?

[wsbailey]

One use I know of is for a tenkara fly. The feather used is the alula (kenbane in Japanese).

[Fishnkilts]

One use I know of is for a tenkara fly. The feather used is the alula (kenbane in Japanese).

https://youtu.be/8x8m0LUNUtQ?si=icYXMqes7N9pIRdT

That was a great video! I never thought of tying in peacock herl like he did. Thank you for sharing that.

[letumgo]

Thanks for sharing the video link. Very interesting techniques.

[chugbug]

Neat stuff. Had to look up alula on Wikipedia, learned they are a natural feat of flight engineering, creating turbulence over the wing to allow the bird to angle up its wings and swoop down while maintaining lift

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Alula feathers helping this fish-catcher swing down and across for the kill...

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A wonderful creature. But then I got fly brain and couldn't help myself...

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(It's a lazy Sunday over here for sure)

[hankaye]

chugbug, Howdy;

Neat stuff. Had to look up alula on Wikipedia, learned they are a natural feat of flight engineering, creating turbulence over the wing to allow the bird to angle up its wings and swoop down while maintaining lift

Haliaeetus_leucocephalus2~3.jpg

Alula feathers helping this fish-catcher swing down and across for the kill...

Haliaeetus_leucocephalus2.jpg

A wonderful creature. But then I got fly brain and couldn't help myself...

Haliaeetus_leucocephalus2~5.jpg

(It's a lazy Sunday over here for sure)

In the aviation side of life they would be referred to as Forward wing Slats. chucklin'

hank

[RickA]

Classic fly brain there, chugbug!
I see them almost everyday and after 15 years, I'm still in awe when I watch them hunt.
absolutely amazing.

[chugbug]

[nfrechet]

pheasant wing quill feathers can be used on a number of ray bergman and ken sawada winged wet flies

[Variant]

You can subitute hen pheasant feathers for many soft hackle patterns.
Our late friend Alan ( small stream reflections) did it all the time.

Lou