Marabou or bucktail.....

[Oldfart]

I thought hackle and bucktail were the same thing?

hackle are feathers and bucktails are hair

[skiptomylu]

I thought hackle and bucktail were the same thing?

I see someone already said the hair and feather part, but thee is even more to it than that as there are several different kinds of hackle and even synthetic hackle. Just sticking to feathers though there is neck hackle which is what most use on jigs for a tail then there is saddle hackle mostly used for a collar or palmering over the body. Also then there is hackle used for dry flies and it's used by size meaning across the feather and even measured by hook size and these are really thin feathers where neck hackle is wide and webbey.

So there are a lot of different hackle feathers and then the synthetic type as well.

[MEATGETTER]

i like kip tails best, but all has their place!!!!!!!!!!!

[RBeav]

Maribou and plastic is the only way to fly

[ChrisCarter]

hackle are feathers and bucktails are hair

Well i guess i have hackle and marabou. I guess the bucktail is what is on the in-line spinners

[Oldfart]

Well i guess i have hackle and marabou. I guess the bucktail is what is on the in-line spinners

most of the time it "Buck tail " but it can be cafe tail or squrrel tail, or foxtail,or just about any hair on most spinner Hope we haven't confused you,because everything changes when you cross the county line too,

[Fatman]

If you don't have all kinds in your box there's gonna be a day your fishing partner kicks your butt!!! Kip tail, calf body hair, bucktail, zonker strips, bear, squirrel.... and on feathers, maribou.... plastics all kinds and with what's coming out from the guys here simply AMAZING. I like em all - but I've been tying bucktail jigs a LONG time so I have confidence in it but I'm trying lots of different stuff now.

Be prepared!!!

Oldfart "Fat fingers) LOL!!!!!!!!