Jack's Fly Tying Materials

Blood Marabou	Corsair Tubing
Crab and Dab Fur Hackle	E Z Mini Hooks
Flashabou	Gartside's Secret Stuff
Hedron Lateral Scale	Secret Fly Kit
Small Worm and Eel Chenille	Sticky Back Foam
Wiggle Worm Chenille

Blood Marabou

Blood marabou is thin-stemmed, long-fibered turkey marabou (not to be confused with marabou shorts or "chickabou"). Length 3.5"-4" long. These often hard-to-find, high-quality feathers are used for tying flies calling for very soft marabou.

For examples of flies you can tie using blood marabou see Tying the Soft Hackle Streamer, Tying the Soft Hackle Sand Eel, and (my webmaster Mike's favorite striper fly) Tying the BeastMaster General.

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Corsair Tubing

This is the REAL stuff. Strong, durable, and malleable, this easy-to-use polyester or polyester/mylar tubing is used to tie some of the most realistic and interesting flies you can imagine. Each pack contains approximately 3 feet of material.

For examples of flies you can tie with corsair, read Tying the Floating Minnow, Tying the Corsair Sand Eel , and Tying the Featherwing FishHead.

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Crab and Dab Fur Hackle

Crab and Dab Fur, not really a "fur" but a very soft yarn made mostly of viscose and polyester which is woven into a string on one side only. Extremely easy to use, it's a perfect material for creating wide, flat-bodied flies such as crabs and baby flounder imitations. Form bodies by simply winding it along the hook shank until the desired fullness is attained. Mix colors to achieve the mottled coloring common in bait species. Try this stuff and you may never tie Merkin-style crabs again!

See my article Three Crabs and a Dab for step-by-step instructions on using Crab and Dab Fur to tie four simple and very effective patterns.

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E Z Mini Hooks

Best hackle pliers in the world! For sheer gripping power, working in small spaces, and durability, none compare to the E-Z Mini Hook. I've been using mine for almost fifteen years. Don't be fooled by cheap imitations such as you find in most electronics stores that grip poorly and cut hackle stems with their sharp edges.

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Flashabou

Strong mylar fibers that have the flash of tinsel and the action of marabou. Excellent in all types of flies. Use it for tails, winging,side flash, wound bodies, ribbing, throats, and carapaces.

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Gartside's Secret Stuff

You too can be a magician at the vise with Gartside's Secret Stuff (or "GSS" for short). Wow your friends! Catch more fish! Have more fun! Learn the arcane secrets of "The Great Gartside, the Fly-Tying Magician" and make them your own.

This ultra-fine 8"-long hair-like material is incredible! It moves in the water like no other synthetic material I've ever used and has a translucent luster that outrivals nature's.

Use it alone or blended with natural materials to create the most effective baitfish imitations you've ever tied. Use it as a hair substitute for lively and realistic streamers and baitfish imitations. Use it instead of Flashabou to form highly visible parachute wings, spinner wings, tails, hackle and bodies on all sorts of flies.

And here's the best part (for fans of epoxy flies). With GSS you can form realistic epoxy-like heads or bodies without the muss or fuss or weight of epoxy. This is fun stuff! Magic stuff!

For examples of flies you can tie with GSS, read Tying the Secret Baby Baitfish, Tying the Blueback Herring, and Two Simple Secret Flies.

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Hedron Lateral Scale

Hedron Lateral Scale is a 1/16 inch wide, somewhat thicker "corrugated" mylar that's exceptionally strong. Ideal for adding flash or an unusual touch to large salt or fresh water streamers. I use it primarily as a "cinching" material for many of my Gurglers, to tighten or "cinch" down the shell to the body and also to protect the foam shell from toothy fish. Also used to form lifelike casings on shrimp bodies or flash thoraxes on nymphs. The creative tyer will find lots of uses for this material.

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Secret Fly Kit

Everything you need to get started tying flies with Gartside's Secret Stuff. The Secret Flies book has step-by-step instructions for dozens of patterns, plus important tips for working with the material. The two packs of GSS provide enough material to tie hundreds of flies. And as a bonus, a Secret Baby Baitfish tied by Jack is included as a tying model (which doesn't mean you can't also go out and catch some fish with it). Kit includes:

	2 packs of Secret Stuff
+	Jack's book Secret Flies for Fresh and Salt Water
+	1 Secret Baby Baitfish fly

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Small Worm and Eel Chenille

Approximately 1/8 inch in diameter, this fine suede chenille is ideal for tying small sand eels, small cinder worms, San Juan worms, Baby Buggers, and many other effective flies.

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Sticky Back Foam

For gurglers, sliders, beetles, hoppers, all kinds of floating flies.

This high-buoyancy closed-cell foam has a sticky underside--just peel away the protective backing and press against another piece of foam (sticky or non-sticky) for instant adhesion. Press multiple sheets together to create foam as thick as you want. Press different colors together to achieve two-tone or even triple-tone effects. Create foam whose underside presents a dark silhouette (to fish) and whose topside presents a high-visibility surface (to fishermen). Lots of fun!

Each sheet approximately 5" x 6".

For examples of flies you can tie with sticky-back foam, read Tying the Double Gurgler, Tying the Gurgler, and Tying the Gartside Bug.

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Wiggle Worm Chenille

Wiggle Worm Chenille is a two-ply plush chenille, ideal for tying up fat and juicy worm patterns, Worm Gurglers and Sliders, and super-meaty wooly buggers.The Cinder Worm chenille is perfect for tying up spawning cinder worm patterns as well as having many other uses. Approx. 9 feet per pack.

See my article Tying the Wiggle Worm for step-by-step instructions on a fly you can tie using Wiggle Worm Chenille.

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