Canadian Goose Biots

[Chetland]

I was watching "Tying Midges" by Shane Stalcup. I really liked the segmentation look that you get with the Canadian goose biots. Do you guys know of anywhere we can purchase these? I tried doing a search on the site and the only thing that looked relevant was on Canada Goose Quill Fibers. I also tried www.stalcupflies.com and found something called a premo goose biot. Don't know if that's it or not.

Thanks for you time!

[Jason]

If you're talking about Goose Biots I think most of the shops will have them. You can also try turkey biots as well.

[Chetland]

I finally decided to email the Stalcup website asking where to get Canadian Goose Biots. Here's the response incase you were interested, if not, here's the response anyway...

The Canadian Biots have become hard to get. The best goose biots are called
"Premo Goose Biots" which come from Hareline dubbing or through my on-line
catalog(www.stalcupflies.com). For a size 10 body no goose will work. For
sizes 14 and greater I use turkey. To make the ribbing darker like the
Canadian goose, take a marker across the top of the biot and the fuzzy rib
will get darker while the main biot will remain untouched. Hope this helped.
Thanks
Shane Stalcup

Seems like a pretty nice guy.

[Jason]

So is there a difference, Canadian goose biots vs. non-Canadian? Or, are all biots Canadian?

[jdubya]

But in Fly Tyer the House of Harrop has two flies, green drakes, size 12, that use a dyed goose quill fiber that is much longer than any goose or turkey biot. There is a conspiracy to keep us from the good stuff!!

[Chetland]

You got me. The biot he was using looked rather large then again it may have been the way the camera was being used (being a video on "Tying Midges"). They were grey with Black stripes down each side of the biot. Made a real slick looking segmented body. If you're looking to get some geese feathers, the golf course by my work has about a flock of 30 over there. I'm sure they wouldn't miss one or two, we just need a 5 iron and a good aim.... :)