Куриные скальпы

Brown

Medium Ginger

Silver Badger

Grizzly

The Whiting Hen Cape is the most widely used Hen cape in the world today. It provides a high quality feather excellent for a myriad of tying applications. Hen cape hackle is a basic and essential tying material. One of its principle uses is for upright dry fly wings. Or when wrapped it creates a great nymph or wet fly collar. The larger hen cape feathers are also excellent for matuka flies, streamers and whole feather wings. Every fly tier should have a full array of hen capes at their tying bench.

Grizzly dyed Golden Olive

Hen Cape Grizzly dyed Dark Olive

Honey Dun

Pale Watery Dun

White dyed Light Dun

White dyed Medium Dun

Coq de Leon Hen Cape Black

Coq de Leon Hen Cape Grizzly

Coq de Leon Hen Cape White

The Whiting Coq De Leon Hen Cape is a soft, webby cape in a naturally mottled brown color pattern making these the perfect feathers for collars, nymph legs, wing cases, and larger soft hackles.

Spey and Dee flies demand a unique type of feather to create their swept back profiles and flowing movement in swift water. Initially “Spey Cock” feathers from special roosters of the Spey River Valley in Scotland from which both fly and chicken derived their name, provided ideal feathers to tie Spey and Dee flies. But the already obscure Spey Cock stock dwindled into oblivion in the early 20th century, or at least their numbers became insufficient to perpetuate this specific line of fowl. Furthermore, the use of feathers from various European and Asian heron species came into vogue in Spey, Dee and other salmon flies, de-emphasizing the use of Spey Cock feathers which also contributed to their demise.

With the advent of legal protection of heron species, especially in North America, the search for suitable substitutes for heron feathers led to a number of other species and types of feathers being tried. Particular heron substitutes have included rooster schlappen and coque feathers, Ring-Necked Pheasant and Blue Eared Pheasant “rump” saddle feathers, bleached goose shoulder and various duck flank feathers. All these substitues have been used with varying success and are in themselves a testament to the ingenuity and creativity of Spey fly tiers. But what worked best; Spey Cock and Heron, was what was actually sought, not the substitute. Instigating a number of genetic avenues, development proceeded towards a “genetic” Spey Hackle, which then became available after about 5 years of initial selection work. Feather characteristics sought included long, substantial barbs, absence of any webbing between the barbs, non brittleness of the entire feather and excellent density for good value. In addition to a pure white, which is deal for dying, an array of other color and pattern genes were incorporated into this “genetic” Spey hackle stock. Thus new and unusual feather colors and patterns would be available to encourage the inherent creativity of fly tiers. A wide range of feather sizes will also be available from these “genetic” Spey hackle chicken, thus allowing an even wider range of fly sizes to be tied.

Spey Hackle Hen Cape White dyed Salmon

Spey Hackle Hen Cape White

Spey Hackle Hen Cape Black

Spey Hackle Hen Cape White dyed Medium Dun

HEN NECK - скальпы куриные. Целые куриные скальпы - полный комплект перьев с головы и шеи курицы, находящихся на специальным образом обработанной коже (скальпе), снятой с птицы. Куриные перья мягче и менее упруги, чем петушиные. Перья с куриных скальпов наиболее часто используются для вязания мокрых мушек (wet flies) и нимф (nymph). Незаменимы при изготовлении мушек серии "soft hackle", а так же при изготовлении ножек стримеров и лососевых мушек. Предлагаются скальпы различных расцветок.