Ewing Chickabou Marabou Body Patches

Name: Yellow Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
Price: 22.88 USD
Availability: InStock

Ewing Chickabou Marabou Body Patches. The Stuff That Breathes

I’ve been tying streamers and guiding Montana water for a long time, and I’ll tell you what I tell every client who asks why their fly isn’t eating: it isn’t moving. Fish don’t eat feathers. They eat things that look alive. Ewing Chickabou is the most alive material you can put on a hook.

Chickabou is the soft, downy marabou from the base of a chicken skin. It’s shorter and finer than turkey marabou, which means it fits small hooks without turning into a mop, and it moves at a dead-drift crawl that turkey can’t match. Ewing sells it as a body patch — a section of skin loaded with consistent, dense fibers — so every feather you pull looks like the last one. That’s how you tie a dozen identical Woolly Buggers instead of twelve cousins.

We carry 40 colors, solid and grizzly. The grizzly patches carry a natural barring that reads like the lateral line on a sculpin, a crawfish leg, or a mullet’s flank. In clear water, barring gets eats when solid colors get looks.

What it ties: Woolly Buggers, leeches, Simi Seal-style leeches, soft-hackle wets, damsel nymphs, crawfish and sculpin tails, steelhead and salmon collars, Intruder hackle, spey flies, Clouser and Deceiver tails, bonefish and permit crab legs, tarpon toad tails, panfish jigs, and muskie fly accents.

What it catches: trout, steelhead, salmon, bass, muskie, pike, panfish, carp, bonefish, redfish, permit, snook, tarpon, and just about anything else that swims and eats. I mean that.

Hook range: #12 soft hackles through 3/0 streamers. Pull fibers from the base of the patch for big flies, the tip for small ones.

At $22.88 a patch, you get dozens of flies per color. Pick the colors your water demands, then pick one you think is silly. That one usually catches the biggest fish.

— Capt. Grumpy

Water / species	Start with	Then try
Montana trout, streamers	Black, Olive, Coachman Brown	Olive Grizzly, Ginger Grizzly
Trout, nymphs and soft hackles	Light Dun, Medium Dun, Ginger	Golden Olive, Claret
Steelhead and salmon	Black, Bright Purple, Orange	Kingfisher Blue, Bright Pink
Bass and panfish	Black, Green Chartreuse, White	Coachman Brown Grizzly, Red
Muskie and pike	Black, Yellow Chartreuse, Red	Orange Grizzly, White
Flats: bonefish, redfish, permit	Ginger, Ginger Grizzly, Light Dun	Golden Olive, Light Pink Grizzly
Tarpon and snook	Black, Dark Purple, White	Royal Blue, Yellow Chartreuse

FAQ

What is chickabou? Chickabou is the fine, soft marabou-type feather from the base of a chicken skin. It’s shorter and finer than turkey marabou, so it works on smaller hooks and moves with almost no current.

Chickabou vs. turkey marabou — what’s the difference? Turkey marabou is longer and bulkier, good for big flowing tails. Chickabou is finer, more consistent in length, and better for #12–#2 flies, collars and legs. Most serious tyers keep both.

What hook sizes does Ewing Chickabou fit? Roughly #12 through 3/0. The base of the patch gives longer fibers for big streamers and saltwater flies; the tip gives short fibers for soft hackles and nymphs.

Is chickabou good for saltwater flies? Yes. It’s a standard tail on bonefish, permit and redfish patterns and a great accent on tarpon flies. Rinse flies in fresh water after a salt trip and they’ll last.

What’s the difference between solid and grizzly chickabou? Grizzly patches are naturally barred. Barring imitates sculpins, crawfish, baitfish and shrimp and often triggers more eats in clear water.

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Black Chickabou Body Marabou
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Bright Pink Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Bright Pink Grizzly Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Bright Purple Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Bright Purple Grizzly Chickabou-Marabou Body Patch
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Claret Chickabou-Marabou Body Patch
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Coachman Brown Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Coachman Brown Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Dark Olive Chickabou-Marabou Patch
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Dark Purple Chickabou-Marabou Patch
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Dark Purple Grizzly Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Ginger Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Ginger Grizzly Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Golden Olive Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Golden Olive Grizzly Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Green Chartreuse Chickabou-Marabou Patch
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Green Chartreuse Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Kingfisher Blue Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Kingfisher Blue Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Lavender Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Lavender Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Light Dun Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Light Dun Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Light Pink Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Medium Dun Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Medium Dun Grizzly Chickabou-Marabou Body Patch
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Olive Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Olive Grizzly Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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Orange Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Orange Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Red Chickabou-Marabou Body Patch
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Red Grizzly Chickabou-Marabou Body Patch
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Royal Blue Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Royal Blue Grizzly Chickabou-Marabou Body Patch
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Silver Doctor Blue Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Silver Doctor Blue Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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White Chickabou Body Marabou
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Yellow Chartreuse Chickabou-Marabou Patch
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Yellow Chartreuse Grizzly Chickabou Body Marabou Patch
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Yellow Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch
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