Featherside Flies
663 Airport Road
Corinna, Maine 04928
207-924-3886

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I have MANY items not listed here.
This page was updated December 07, 2011.
I do not have a printed catalog.
Some items sell out faster than I can update this page.

PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

All natural Moth and insect repellent. I have used this product on my feathers and furs for 30 years to keep beetles, moths and animals like mice from eating my fly tying materials. Just sprinkle it on the feathers and skin, rub it in and put the materials in plastic zip lock bags or plastic tupperware type containers.
If you have tied flies for any length of time you have found that bugs and mice will find a way into a bag of natural material.
If you have this powder on the materials, they may try one bite but they won't eat much. It has worked for me and it will work for you.

#305 Natural Repellent Powder $5.00 per package. Has no smell like moth balls or moth crystals.
Enough to protect 5 or more rooster necks or saddles.
If you spent $30.00 to $150.00 for a rooster neck, then this is a small price to pay to keep your investment from being eaten by bugs or mice.

Jungle Cock Necks

I have quite few in stock

Gallus Sonnerati

Not for Export out of the U.S.

Grade A (Large cape, more small eyes, some split large eyes) $150.00

Grade B ( Medium sized neck, splits) $125.00

Grade C $75.00 (mostly splits)

Fishing Grade $45.00 - small cape all split feathers



All necks have some split feathers, the
Grade A has more of the smaller feathers,
some of the grade C necks are every bit as nice as a grade B, but will have less perfect eyes.
How to "fix" split eyes
Take a drop of clear vinyl cement such as Dave's Flex-cement and put it on both sides of the feather. Stroke the fibers to the tip and hold them there until the cement dries. After the cement is dried, many tyers will cement the eye to the wing or cheek with another drop of cement.

Many rod builders use the eye as a marker to put the two rod pieces together, looks classy.
Just glue one to each side of the ferrule then coat over them with epoxy.

 
Kingfisher Skins - not for export
$25.00 each
Light blue back feathers used as cheeks on Atlantic Salmon flies
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Please Take Note;
I  have the loose plucked feathers in stock.

Drake Wood Duck
 
White breast feathers - for fan wing Royal Coachman  $3.00 pack
Lemon Flank feathers   $5.00 pack of 10
Barred Lemon Flank $1.50 per pair

Drake Mallard

Wing Pointer Quills - for Blue Dun, Black Gnat and Henryville Caddis wings  $1.00 pr.
White tipped secondary quills for McGinty $1.00 pr.
Bronze Shoulders - Assorted sizes  $3.00 pack
Bronze Shoulders- large pair $1.00 pr.
White tipped Brown breast feathers for the West Branch Caddis   $5.00 pack
Natural breast and flank   $3.00 pack
Drake Greenwing Teal
 

Joe's Smelt feathers
This feather was always "SAID" to come from Pintail, however it comes from Falcated Duck shoulders.

I do have a limited amount of the original feathers.
Mixed just as they came from the bird. This duck is no longer hunted.

Assorted feathers $5.00 per dozen

Gadwall
LARGE barred flanks   $10.00 pack
The Gadwall has a deep barred flank feather that looks like a dark teal.
The feathers are larger than Greenwing Teal. The large flank feathers are used on Atlantic Salmon and Steelhead flies.
The smaller feathers are used on trout flies and cheeks on traditional streamers such as the Magog Smelt and Eddie's Ripogenus Smelt.

Pintail
Large body flanks for salmon flies $1.00 per pair
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Goose
Egyptian Goose
Limited supply - not for export
Alopochen aegyptiacus
Light Flank feathers - $5.00 per 2 pair - white with bars
Medium Flank feathers - $5.00 per 2 pair - buff with bars
Dark Breast feathers - dark brown with bars - very few per bird - $5.00 per pair

Here are some links to different breeds of geese. I do NOT have feathers from these birds. These pages are for your education.

Blue India Peacock
Pavo cristatus

Peacock wing quill- tan with black barring



They are often used in marrying wings on Atlantic Salmon flies.
Many shops will sell them as a substitute for Florican or Speckled Bustad

Peacock Crest
sold out

Dark Blue Peacock Shoulder
$1.00 per feather
Per 10 assorted feathers - each 2 to 4 inches long $10.00


Gold-green back feathers
$5.00 per package of 12 feathers
Blue neck feathers -
 $5.00 per package of 12 feathers

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Guinea Fowl
Natural Pearl Guinea
Numida meleagris

Kenya Crested Guinea
Guttera spp.

Vulturine Guinea Fowl
Acryllium vulturinum

Pheasants

Golden Pheasant
Chrysolophus pictus

 Complete skin with out tail
Grade #1 

- includes golden crest, barred tippets, and the body skin and wings

Crest feathers - small & medium -$ 1.00 per 12
Tippets - per 12 assorted sizes- $ 2.00
Complete tail with red spikes  $15.00



Lady Amherst

Center Tail sections - $10.00


Silver Pheasant
Complete skin without the tail
Grade 1 - sold out
Grade 2 - sold out

 Cheeks for Gray Ghosts - $3.50 for 25 feathers - natural only
Please state size needed-
Small for casting streamers,
Medium for casting and trolling streamers,
Large for hackles

Ringneck Pheasant
Male - complete skin with attached tail
$15.00
Body feathers $2.00 per package

Tragopan Pheasant

Tragopan back feathers
The back feathers have an eye at the tip.
Loose eyed back  feathers $5.00 per 6 feathers

Tragopan belly feathers
The belly  feathers have a dun oval center with reddish brown edges like fish gills.
Loose belly feathers $5.00 per 6 feathers





Substitute Materials
Florican Bustad you can use -  Peacock wing quills
Speckled Bustad -- Use - Mottled Turkey wing quills
Indian Crow - imitation dyed red or orange - $2.00 per package
Blue Chatterer - use Kingfisher
Tandem Wire
I have bright, black, and now red -
The black and red have colored plasic over the wire

Pre-cut two and a half inches - $3.00 per ten
36 inch piece - $3.00
Tandem package - 10 wires, 20 tandem hooks - $15.00
Tandem Hooks - $7.00 per box of 100 - Mustad 3399 sizes 4 or 6

Tandem bodies all made up - you mount the wings - $2.50 each
Choose from the following fly types -
Joe's Smelt silver, Joe's Smelt pearl, Gray Ghost, traditional Governor Aiken,
traditional Magog Smelt, Red Ghost, Green Ghost, Spencer Bay Special,
Wood Special, Black Ghost

Pearl piping body, silver piping body, Gold Piping body, Flat silver tinsel, Flat Gold tinsel body
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Poly Bags
Clear poly bag - 2 inches deep by 4 inches long - $3.00 per 100
These are what I package my streamers and trolling tandems in.
 I make a business card with Print Shop and print it on 110 pound white Card Stock paper.
I then cut them out and tape the fly to the card.
Then I insert the card and fly into this poly bag, fold the end over and staple the end.
Then I punch a whole in the middle of the top so the fly will hang from a peg board hook.
 
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Hackles
I now carry only the best streamer hackles that can be found. Whiting American Hackle are breeding some good birds.

Finding uniform quality and color from pelt to pelt is hard in either company.
It doesn't matter if you buy dyed pelts or natural pelts the colors are rarely the same.


Whiting
American Hen Saddle - Call for list of colors in stock
 for streamer cheeks, collars, throats, beards, nymph legs, etc.


These are often referred to as duck or turkey in many fly tying books.
Turkey has a flat or squared off edge as does duck. If you look at the pictures
of the flies you will see that the feather that they use has a soft rounded edge.
Hen Saddle is the feather that they used, though many tiers don't realize it.
Remember 20 years ago when Calf tails were referred to as Kip or Impala?
The Joe's Smelt feather is sold as Pintail. Northern Pintail ducks do not have
the right feather. Ask any duck hunter, or do what I did, buy a Pintail skin.
The fly tying industry likes to keep us in the dark about some things.


I have had a lot of request for the round cheek feathers that are commonly
used on the Carrie Stevens streamer flies.
Here are the colors that I have in stock as of December 7, 2011
Red is the most commonly used cheek color.
Silver Doctor Blue
Kingfisher Blue
Orange
Highland Green
Yellow for Black Ghost tails and beards etc.
Black (due January 15, 2011)
Dark Olive
White
Pink (due January 15, 2011)
Florescent Chartreuse Green or Yellow
Golden Olive (due January 15, 2011)
Natural Grizzly (sold out)
Natural Grizzly dyed Orange
Natural Grizzly dyed Yellow(sold out)
Natural Grizzly dyed dark olive
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Turkey Quills

Hunters wanted Now!

Turkey
Wing quills - rounds
Here are some web sites so you can see what the turkeys look like.
I do NOT have feathers from all these birds, these sites are for your education. I learned a lot from them.
 
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Hairs
 
Prime Northern Deer Tails
Natural White Large $4.50 each
Small Tail $3.50 each


Bear Hair
*Not for export*
Black Bear $3.50
Perfect for Black Brear Green Butt, Black Nosed Dace,
 and other salmon hair winged flies.

Moose
Moose Body hair - for tails on dries, etc. $1.00
Moose Mane $ 1.50 - for Mosquito bodies, it also makes a good substitute for stripped Peacock eye bodies like Quill Gordons

White Tailed Deer Tail - Buck tails $4.95 each - Natural white / brown back
White Deer belly piece $4.00

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