Capes & Saddles

Chevron capes are beautiful quality from birds reared here in the UK, and dyed to the highest standard. All these Chevron feathers have a super soft centre stem to each feather making them a pleasure to tie with. These grade one capes really are the best...

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...

Whiting Farms are a renowned supplier of some of the best fly tying materials capes in the world. The Herbet Hen Cape is the traditionalist’s choice, offering an exceptional sub-surface feather. They are described to have the best willowy fibres...

Just when you thought dry fly hackle could not get any better it did when Dr. Thomas Whiting announced Whiting Dry Fly Hackle; the next generation above Hoffman Hackle. Now the Whiting Farms staff has taken the ultimate in hackle one step further with...

Metz have been the market leaders in the production of genetic hackles for over 20 years and continue to offer the finest quality and best value for money for all fly-tyers. The Grade 1 Hen Saddle consists of soft and supple hackles. They are full of...

These genetic cock capes are of outstanding quality and are great value for money. The individual feathers have a taper similar to the Indian hackles but the cape itself is very full of a wide range of hackle sizes. Available colours: Grizzly, Dyed Black...

The Chinese Cock Neck Capes come from the back of the bird's neck downwards towards their rear. These capes come in 12 vibrantly dyed colours. They are generally used for wet fly tying as the feathers on the cape have stiff barbs which help the keep...

Larger saddle patch for saltwater, intruder, salmon & lure patterns. Great value-for-money hackles with a vast variety of uses, including front- and palmer hackles and wings/tails on both small- and medium sized streamers. The 4 B’s: Bigger...

Indian Cock Neck / Capes are great value for money. The feathers from this neck are able to be used in wet and dry Trout fly tying.The cock neck feathers are stiff but also webby so are popularly used for streamer patterns. They can also be used as wing...