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9.  Once the spine of the marabou feather is inserted into the magic tool, the feather fibers from both sides of the marabou should be extending vertically.



10.  Grab the feather fibers of the marabou which are extending with the MP clamp, and release the spine of the feather from the magic tool.



11.  You should now have a marabou feather, with all of its fibers clamped, as shown below.  The spine should be outside of the clamp.



12.  With sharp, precise scissors, trim away the spine.



13.  Insert the protruding marabou feather fibers into the dubbing loop which you have waiting.  The wax on the thread will help keep the fibers in place.



14.  Once the fibers are in the loop, apply downward pressure on your dubbing twister.  The tool should compact itself as shown on the bottom left of the photo below.  Spin the dubbing twister until all of the marabou fibers are secured.  Hint:  You may want to strum your dubbing loop once it's been twisted to enhance the look of your marabou.



15.  Once the marabou becomes a permanent part of the dubbing loop, palmer the now twisted loop forward onto the body of the fly.



16.  Depending on the size of your marabou feathers, and the size of the fly, you may need to repeat steps 8 through 15 - 3 or 4 times to cover the entire body of the fly with spun marabou.  Do not worry about the fly looking messy or "not right" at this point.  Excess marabou will be trimmed later.




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Written By: Nick Pujic, © April, 2004
Photographs By:  © Nick Pujic