Marabou feathers for fly tying
Marabou - the perfect fly tying material for lively streamers
Marabou feathers are mainly used for tying streamers because of their extremely soft fibres and incredibly lively movement in the water. Especially in Stillwater fly fishing, streamers tied with marabou can literally pulsate when retrieved with short strips and pauses. During the pause, the marabou expands beautifully, while it collapses tightly again when stripped. This unique movement makes marabou streamers irresistible to predatory fish. We offer premium marabou feathers in a wide range of colours, from bright fluorescent shades to natural muted tones. Grizzly variants are also available and perfectly imitate the barred appearance of small baitfish. With high-quality marabou, you can give your streamers even more life and attraction.
MARABOU FEATHERS
GIVE YOUR STREAMERS IRRESISTIBLE MOVEMENT
Marabou feathers are extremely soft, creating a truly lifelike, almost hypnotic movement in the water. They are widely used for tying streamers and are an essential material for making the famous Wooly Bugger, probably the most fished streamer pattern in the world.
Marabou streamers can be used universally. In still water, these patterns can be animated particularly well using short twitches with pauses in between. During these pauses, the soft material opens up beautifully and creates plenty of volume, while it tightens during the retrieve, giving the impression that the lure is pulsating. This allows you to fish your streamer in a wide variety of highly effective ways. This exceptional material already comes alive as your streamer sinks, so you can expect a take at any time from the very first second it enters the water.
If you use your marabou streamer in running water, the current automatically animates your fly, creating a lively and highly dynamic movement that perfectly imitates the frantic swimming action of a fleeing baitfish. This instinctively triggers predatory fish, making it extremely difficult for them to resist attacking your fly.
In our online shop for fly anglers and fly tyers, we stock a large selection of marabou feathers, all of which are carefully selected and of outstanding quality. The colour range extends from bright, eye-catching shades to subtle, natural tones, allowing you to find the perfect colour combination for every streamer pattern. Some variants are also UV-active, reflecting strongly in this light spectrum and giving your fly patterns an additional visual trigger.
In addition to the different solid colours, you will also find grizzly-dyed marabou feathers, featuring a black barred pattern over the base colour. This high-contrast colouration is particularly effective for imitating baitfish, as it closely reproduces the natural barring and irregular scale patterns found on many prey fish species.
Our marabou feathers measure approximately 13 to 15 cm in length. Thanks to their long, dense fibres, they are equally well suited to tying both large and small streamer patterns.