brown hackle

American  

noun

Angling.

1. an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.

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brown hackle

Dark mottled grey for your wings, and a brown hackle, with a dark rather than a straw-coloured body, is the kind of fly we find most killing on the upper Coln.

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

Under arching willow, and by promising rock, his brown hackle flickered temptingly, placed by an expert hand.

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Another fly, with brown body, brown hackle, brown wings, and tail, ribbed with gold.

From Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies by William Blacker

I was only half listening, for a brown hackle and a Montreal were competing for the middle place on my cast, and it was a vital point.

From Joy in the Morning by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

Wings, small red-brown wood duck breast feathers, feelers dark brown hackle, and a large black head.

From How to Tie Flies by Ellery Clark Gregg