Jigs look pretty good, but don't cut the natural ends off the marabou! Cut other end for length before you tie it in. Also I don't want the ends to look like they were cut off to make square straight cut. Kind of hard to tell in your pictures, but in my marabou jigs I don't use the stem much at all. Maybe 10% of the marabou will have a stem thin enough that I use it. I pull the barbules off the stem, stack enough for the tail, pinch where I want to cut the ends I pulled off and cut, tie in! You just get more and better action if there is no stem in your tail!

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