English Partridge £16.50 each

Our skins are taken from real wild birds from some of Englands finest sporting estates. The cock birds tend to be of a greyer hue and more finely marked, the hens are browner and more heavily marked – please state your preference.

Dyed English Partridge £18.50 each

We have spent a lot of time perfecting the dyeing process to provide you with the finest dyed skins available – choose from the following colours –
Medium Olive, Dark Olive, Yellow Olive, Fl Yellow, Hot Orange,
Irish Golden Olive, Claret & Fiery Brown.

French Partridge £13.00 each.

As well as the familiar barred flanks these skins provide a range of subtle olive /brown hackles – lots of potential here

Grouse £18.50 each

Superb skins from birds from some of the finest Scottish grouse moors.
They contain a vast range of barred ginger and brown hackles.

Snipe £15.00 each

Delicate, subtly marked feathers for soft hackled patterns.

Golden Plover £25.00 each

Superb skins with every hackle edged in yellow. Very difficult to resource so always phone to check availibility.

Waterhen £15.00 each

Each skin contains a vast array of blue dun and olive soft hackles as well as the much sought after wings for Waterhen Bloa.

Coot £13.00 each

Similar to Waterhen but more of a smoke grey colour. These skins provide a good source of Spey Hackles for hook sizes up to 2/0.

Jay £10.00 each

As well as the beautiful wings, these skins contain a vast number of finely textured feathers in delicate shades of beige.

Magpie £10.00 each

As well as the wings and the tail, these skins contain lots of small dense black hackles ideal for Spider Patterns.

Jackdaw £10.00 each

A whole selection of black soft hackles as well as the grey scalp feathers.

Pheasant

Both the cock and hen birds provide a whole range of useful feathers. The skins from the cock birds come in several varieties.

  Normal Cock £11.00
  Normal Hen £10.00
  Melanistic Cock £12.00


 

A few thoughts ...

It has long been apparent that the vast majority of fly tying materials available are of an inferior quality -
which does not suit the needs of the discerning fly dresser. The majority of our materials are sourced, sorted, selected and packaged by us giving 100% quality control.

The Cookshill Guarantee -our aim is to provide a range of mainly natural materials of the highest quality and at a price that is sensible. We appreciate that the needs of each fly dresser are very individual and your idea of a correct feather size or colour may vary from ours.

Cookshill is not about fancy brochures and advertising we simply supply the finest quality natural materials.