2024年9月8日 · The few dry flies that I do still tie with the Catskill style collar hackle are mainly patterns like the Humpy, "Wulff" patterns with divided hair wings, and a couple of caddis patterns; on these, I trim the hackle tips flush with the hook point.

2024年10月6日 · Ok, the fall doldrums are about to set in so let’s cut some of the boredom with a soft hackle swap. Beginner swappers are encouraged to jump in. Don’t be shy, if you’re nervous about getting in a swap, I can help you through it. Any style of soft hackle will be acceptable. Be as simple or creative as you like. Sign up by October 25.

2015年2月14日 · I think it was AK Best who described wrapping the hackle, shiny side facing forward, from just behind the eye to behind the wings and then, with the shiny side facing the tail, wrapping back to the eye. This gives a more spread-out footprint, with hackle fibers pointing in all directions. I believe this helps the fly remain afloat in rough water.

2014年3月15日 · When I was a kid (in Montana in the late 40's), the grey hackle was the first fly I learned to tie. We had two versions: the grey hackle peacock with a red tail, a peacock body, and either a brown or grizzly hackle. The other was a grey hackle yellow. It had a red tail, a yellow floss body ribbed with gold tinsel and, again, a brown or grizzly ...

2011年3月17日 · The current hackle producers have raised many generations of birds to get the quality they currently sell. I know some of those breeders get SOME of their hackle birds from Murray McMurray hatchery in Iowa.

2015年10月17日 · I have no experience with Ewing hackle, but Collins does produce a nice product at a more affordable price point than Whiting. To add to phg's final remark, Keough hackles are nice, though they may be fairly short with quite a variance in length cape to cape, but they wrap quite easily, the barb stiffness is superb, and the smaller size ...

2010年12月3日 · I usually use Whiting Winger Hen Neck feathers for hackle-wing dries, but I don't own a grizzly skin. So for my last batch of regular Adam's I used Metz hen neck feathers. I like my hackle tip wings fairly wide (about one hook gap wide) and …

2013年2月3日 · Neck hackle is from the head & neck area, and down into the back of the bird. The next area down into the back is what is called the saddle, just as if you were putting a saddle on the back of a horse. Saddle hackle is the long, thin feathers, and as you get into the tail, there is schlappen hackle & then the tail feathers.

2007年1月14日 · Rather than tying a collar using a single feather tied in by the tip, use a false hackle or beard, by plicking hackle fibers off a feather, and tying in the fibers as a bunch. Careful thread manipulation will let you either create a beard or throat below the hook shank, or let the fibers travel around the shank.

2011年11月6日 · Trimming all the hackle off the bottom of the fly is a very old technique for creating dry flies that float flat on the water In fact, many of the older fly angling literature advocated carrying a small pair of scissors afield to perform this function with, should the day's activity warrant it.