Fly tying feathers for tube flies - Heron, Jungle Cock, Peacock.....

The Canadian Tube Fly Company

Plumage

Large Heron

When tying tube flies we are often faced with an ongoing problem. Feathers that
would normally work well on a hooked pattern are often too small to accommodate
the thickness of a tube. The most common example of this would be to think of a
palmered schlappen feather. On a size 2/0 hook a standard feather would be fine,
when you put it on a diameter of tube that is often 3 or 4 times as thick as a hook
into the equation, that same schlappen feather now needs to be much bigger and
longer. This is often the frustration that most beginner tube tyers
face....."running out" of feather before the fly is finished!

We have spent the last few years locating many sources of premium feathers more
suitable for tubes.