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Welcome to FeathersMc.com a site dedicated to Salmon Flies and their materials

This is a relatively new site and still under construction as I suspect it will always be. Outside U.S. sales please email me prior to ordering as the postage could be more and there are certain items that can not be sent outside U.S.

Materials For Sale is where you will find the best selection of quality materials for tying Salmon Flies at very reasonable prices. I also try and give as much information as to material relationship to hook size as I can. If there is something you are looking for and I don't list it or indicate I'm temporarily out of stock on something, please contact me at [John at Feathersmc dot com]

There are several NEW Slide Shows available in the MATERIALS SHOWCASE section above. They each have number a pictures in them and will take a little while to load. If you have a cable or DSL modem it will take a few seconds or so but a telephone modem download could be several minutes. Whether it will be worth the wait or not is entirely up to you.

The pictures were for the most part supplied by Wayne Luallen. Not only was Wayne “The Johnny Appleseed of Salmon Fly Tying” [spreading the gospel far and wide so to speak] he was the lightening rod for many Salmon Fly Tyers work during the 1980’s and 90’s in the US. This occurred pre-internet and before digital cameras [we remember them as “The Old Days”. As a result his collection of Salmon Fly pictures (color prints) is second to none and he has shared it with us. My wife, Linneya, is in the process of scanning all the old pictures and creating an album for each tyer. To date we have William Chinn Jr, Wayne Luallen, Eugene Sunday, and Al Cohen and we are just scratching the surface. Each show will start and move automatically but there are controls at the bottom of the screen that enable you to jump around or stop on one to examine it closely. If you simply move the cursor onto the picture a small dropdown box appears giving any information that had been written on the back of the photo such as the size, pattern and year tied.

The pictures in Exotic Materials Test Slideshow were for the most part taken by me over the last several years. Some of the things remain in my possession while others have simply stopped here briefly while on their way to someone else. Some of the pictures were taken by friends of things in their collections. They were sized for the old slideshow format and have been enlarged slightly by the new system. I will be revamping it entirely in the near future.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES contains articles of interest to the Salmon tyer or those inclined make it yourself. There are several articles called Flies In Stages where Friends have photographed flies in the various stages of construction.

The FRIENDS section continues to grow and offers an interesting array of People and either the things they sell, their own web sites or pictures of their Salmon Flies for you to see.

KORI BUSTARD offers some exceptional pictures of the birds and directs you to very interesting information about them. There is a pilot program in the works to allow any U.S. fly tyer FREE KORI BUSTARD simply by requesting it.
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I continue to add items for sale, new Friends etc. throughout the site. I'll attempt to inform you weekly of anything that might be of interest here:
Any updates prior to March 2008 have been placed in What's New Archives

FAOL Atlantic Salmon and Stealhead Fly Tying Contest for 2008 Entries mus be postmarked no later than May 3 2008.

Last weekend, March 8 & 9 was my local club MFFC 30th annual Fly Fishing Show. My friend Bud Guidry came up from Cajun Country for a visit and to be part of the show. We had a little spare time on Monday and between the two of us created the fly shown below. It's called Banksian Cockatoo Wooly Bugger Variation:

I'm in the process of changing a number of things on the site as well as adding new items as I locate them. In the Materials For Sale section, I now have the ability to change, add or delete categories. I was never real happy with the narrow scope of my original set and now with my new tools I can change it. Hopefully, you’ll soon see a much simpler way of locating things. I’m simply listing feathers broken down to species in most cases. I’m always open to suggestion, it’s still and always be a work in progress.

There are several new Slideshows in the Material Showcase in the menu bar above. William Chinn Jr, Wayne Luallen, Eugene Sunday and Al Cohen for starters.

April 23 2008 It is Hendrickson Time in Michigan and I'm going fishing. Trout Opener on the Au Sable is more about tradition but usually I have my best trout fishing during the Hendrickson Hatch. I'll be gone from Wed April 24 through Monday April 28. I've been able to add a few itemsand get a number of things back in stock (like JEC Floss) but not good White Turkey as of yet. The great news is I now have two friends that have small flocks of the right kind of birds, Holland Whites and we should have plenty of it by late Fall.

May 7 2008 Not much in the way of April Showers but we still have May Flowers. Fishing is picking up so it is getting difficult to spend every waking hour working on feathers and such. I will continue to add new and restock items as they materialize.

I did find time to finally finish a new fly and sortta split another one with Bud. The Owenmore Variation (below right) was tied while visiting with my friends Jim Blais and Tom (Dr Tom) McFarland in February during our annual get-together. Bill Bailey had made up the proper colors of Mohair Manes for the Owenmore, I decided to change the position of the body and tail veiling as well as the wing components. Bud was here in March and I had a Green Highlander done, up to mounting the wing. The wing was made with dyed White Florican and Bud had never used it so he mounted it and finished the fly. Bud doesn't like White Florican and he didn't like the finished product I call the Exaggerated Highlander (below left):