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

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

In fishing a trout stream in northern Michigan I was using a cast of a Parmachenee belle and a brown hackle.

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Charles Barker Bradford

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

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

Stone Blue,—feather from Blackbird inside the wing, or Swift,—brown silk for body, brown hackle for legs.

From The Teesdale Angler by R. Lakeland