Hareline Hen Cape

Dry fly wings, soft hackles, streamer collars, Game Changers, and more, Hareline's Hen Cape lets you tie them all. These capes are of excellent quality with flexible stems and webby feathers that come in a range of sizes. Their range of color options also allows you to match just about any pattern you like. Easy to work with and feathers that can be used for smaller insects just as well as larger, fresh and saltwater flies, Hareline's Hen Capes are about as versatile as it gets.

Uses

These Hen Capes are pretty useful for a wide variety of applications. Some of their most commonly used applications are wings on dry flies, tails and legs on nymphs, collars on soft hackles and streamers, fins on streamers, claws on crabs and crayfish, wings on Matukas, and bodies on small versions of Blane Chocklett's famous Feather Game Changer.

Comparisons

Hen Capes provide nice webby feathers that give the tier a catalog of different sizes of these feathers. A material that would also offer similar characteristics is the India Hen Back. This is also a cape with a variety of different-sized feathers, but the India Hen Back doesn't quite have as wide an assortment of sizes. Also, these feathers tend to be mottled in appearance, which makes them great for flies that look buggy, but if you need a more solid look, the Hen Cape is the better choice.