Whiting Hebert Dry Fly Cape Pro Grade

Hebert Miner Dry Fly Cape Pro Grade are the traditionalists' choice with great variety of natural shades. These capes are from original Hebert Miner gene pool and now bred by Dr. Tom Whiting preserving the original characteristics of this exceptional hackle stock. Hebert Miner runs little larger hackles than original Whiting 'Red Label' dry fly capes and suits for tying slightly larger flies #10-14 with also hackles down to size #18. Beatiful rich colors and shades and orcourse the Whiting dry fly trademarks: supple quills, stiff barbs and generous pelts. 

Whiting Hebert Miner Cape Pro Grade Main Features

• Most feathers for tying flies between #10-18
• Cape size approx 11x35cm
• Pro Grade cape offers hackles for tying hundreds dry flies in variety of sizes. Biggest difference to Bronze is lower quantity of hackles. 

 

THE OLYMPIC GRADING SYSTEM

Whiting's Olympic Grading System was developed to consistently grade capes and saddles across all dry fly product lines. Whiting Farms does not grade from harvest to harvest or “batch to batch”. We do not grade to push up or down pelts to meet certain sales requirements or financial obligations. We do not grade to meet consumer demand. Rather, our grading methodology remains consistent throughout the years and is independent of any bias that would skew the true value of the pelt. When grading our pelts, one rule-of-thumb always stands true: the quality level of the feather is always consistent. What does this mean? It means that each dry fly feather has a supple quill, void of twist, contains dense barbing and is greater than 85% web-free. If a pelt doesn’t meet this core criteria, the pelt is never sold in retail.