Avellanado

Luster: A genuine Leon feather is outstanding in this matter.
Length of the feather's useful part: The longer they are the greater number of possibilities available when tying the fly.
Flexibility combined with rigidity: The ends should never bend or curl, and they should remain flexible when submerged, to give an unmistakable sensation of a living object.
Fineness: The finer it is the denser and thicker will be the plume, and thus more flies can be obtained from it.
The spottiness of the feather, its "pencas" and color should be as similar as possible on both sides.
The less down the better. They should dry rapidly

	Indio Avellanado
Some typical issues of this feather for spanish traditional wet flies:
Head	Body	Ribbing	Example
Orange	Orange	Orange	Papaya Saltona
Yellow	Salmon fuerte	Yellow	Salmón Indio
Black	Orange-Black	Yellow	Tiguer Saltona
Avellana	Rose	Avellana	Avellana

Some typical issues of this feather for dry flies:
Head	Body	Ribbing	Example
Yellow	Butano	Yellow	Strong Orange
Avellana	Brown	Gray	Fortuna



The basic characteristics that define a high-quality feather are Luster, density and Length of the feather's useful part. To give you an aproximatly idea, we have done the following information table:
Origen	Quality	Length of the feather's useful part	Luster	Nº spanish wet flies/bundle of 12 feathers
Riñonada	Extra			18 - 20
Riñonada	Grado # 1			16 - 18
Riñonada	Grado # 2			12 - 14
Colgadera	Grado # 3			10 - 12

Usually the total number of fibers of colgadera feathers (degree 3) is greater than the others, nevertheless the brightness, length and finure of the fibers, is smaller than in superior degrees, which makes difficult its handling for fly tying. Even if, they are an exceptional option to tie streamers. The other degrees normally are used to tie dry and wet flies.