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i have GOOGLED using every search term i could think of to find "chinchilla marabou" and all i can find are boas (scarves) which would yield more marabou than i could use in my remaining time on earth!

i have searched countless online fly shops and nothing!

i have an old george herters book on fly tying and would like to tie up some of those old patterns but they contain "chinchilla marabou".

what is "chincilla" color??

can grizzly marabou be substituted?

I think this is a marketing term to help sell an item - something like the chinchilla rooster capes. The animal is a blue dun in colour and does not have feathers, but you know that.
The pictures that I see when googling that term just shows extra fluffy marabou. As you suggest the term may also refer to barred /grizzly marabou, I would call it good at that.

Nothing to do with marabou, but I have a chinchilla rooster cape. It is kind of ginger grizzly and very beautiful. Preben Torp Jacobsen has written a nice book, "Fluebinding" (Flytying), which was available in a Swedish translation. It includes a chapter on hackle colours with illustrations and extensive descriptions. He claims that Furnace ought to spell Furness which is a village in Lancashire where fighting roosters of this colour was bred. He also writes that if a blue dun rooster is allowed to stay outdoors until early summer, the UV-light from the sun will give a rusty, or brassy, neck. The black pigment gets bleached but not the few red ones.

Marabou??? I know naathing.

dd

Norm ~ PM sent.

DD--wonderful information; thanks for passing it on.