The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

A couple other online suppliers that are worth mentioning are

kingfisherflyshop.com and montanafly.com. Both are very good and you can get free shipping.

I think with natural materials you are better off buying them from your local fly shop rather than from an online supplier. The reason being that natural materials do vary in quality (this applies to genetic fly tying necks and saddles too) and if you buy them from an online supplier you are basically buying them site unseen.

If you go into your local fly shop you can look over whatever natural material(s) you want to buy and get exactly the ones you want. Maybe you get the best ones and maybe you dont, but you'll get what you want.

As for synthetic materials it doesn't make any difference where you buy them since they're completely uniform. No chance you'll get a really good one or a bad one.

Hope this helps.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Brian