The Glass House

Nice tie that looks like a winner.

AK, you tie some pretty sweet looking flies man as did db, I'm Jealous indeed..
question:
db & myself had a discussion about marabou.. Basically I hate it and use almost exclusive all synthetics except for rabbit when tying great lakes flies.. When it came down to understanding why I hated it reason being I was tying wrong.. My marabou flies just clumped on the hook..

So to you, Are these your flies of choice towards salmon or trout (steelhead) or both ?
Why do you use marabou instead of synthetics such as iceabou/krystal flash/estaz ?

Keep sporting those pic's of colorful flies man !!

If you follow along the hook shank you should be able to see the Estaz "egg or ball" I add in there.

This also keeps the marabou from laying on the hook shank.

Tie in by the tip palmer style. Keep it sparse is the key.

If you look at the intruder style, how light they keep the materials and use
hard feathers mixed in there to keep the material out and away from the body
to give it that pulse, on marabou patterns you can also use that burnt spey
hackle to do the same thing but with less expensive materials.

Also while I am thinking about it, when you do tie in palmer, always wrap the
stem forward, never forward then one behind that will produce a clump on the
hook shank , stroke the material backwards while wrapping as well.