capercaillie hen for fly tying

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capercaillie hen for fly tying

Post by TZNorway » Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:56 pm

Hi into the round of experts.

I got two capercaillie hens from a hunter friend. Very interesting feathers for fly tying I think. Anybody having an idea which patterns these traditionally where used in?

Thanks for the input beforehand.

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Re: capercaillie hen for fly tying

Post by letumgo » Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:46 pm

Could you post a picture of the skin? I’d love to see the range of feathers the skin offers.
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Re: capercaillie hen for fly tying

Post by Old Hat » Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:09 pm

I've never heard of any traditional patterns with them but they look to have some great duns, browns and "peacock" color feathers on the cock birds.
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Re: capercaillie hen for fly tying

Post by TZNorway » Wed Sep 25, 2019 6:15 am

letumgo wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:46 pm Could you post a picture of the skin? I’d love to see the range of feathers the skin offers.
I have the image on Instagram as well.

https://instagram.com/p/B21QZlSo0j6/
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Re: capercaillie hen for fly tying

Post by letumgo » Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:44 am

Wow! That is a beautiful bird skin. There is a wide range of uses for the feathers on this bird, ranging from small wet flies (soft hackles/flymphs/NC spiders/Tenkara kebari), winged wets (using the primary feathers), and
full dress streamers (cheek feathers)...

Get busy and show us what you can create. ;) :D

Thanks for posting the photo. I'm not on Facebook, so would not have seen it otherwise. ;)
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Re: capercaillie hen for fly tying

Post by Theroe » Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:17 pm

TZNorway wrote: Wed Sep 25, 2019 6:15 am
letumgo wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:46 pm Could you post a picture of the skin? I’d love to see the range of feathers the skin offers.
I have the image on Instagram as well.

https://instagram.com/p/B21QZlSo0j6/
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Re: capercaillie hen for fly tying

Post by letumgo » Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:57 pm

:lol: :D

Nice try Dana! ;) :lol:
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Re: capercaillie hen for fly tying

Post by hankaye » Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:55 pm

Howdy All;

Decided t do the google bit just to satisfy my curiosity as to just what the heck one of these
birds looks like. Looks like you have a difficult time missing one that's for sure.
https://www.google.com/search?q=caperca ... e&ie=UTF-8

7.5 kilos average??? :shock:

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