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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Example Sentences

Little Black Ant—feather of a Bluecap's tail for wings, black Ostrich herl dressed small in the middle for body, brown hackle for legs.

From The Teesdale Angler by Lakeland, R.

The Harry Longlegs—dubbed with darkish brown hair, and a brown hackle over it, head rather large.

From The Teesdale Angler by Lakeland, R.

It seemed only an attractive novelty and I still believed a brown hackle would suffice.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

Sometimes when he was at work with their horses, or intent on casting his brown hackle for a fish, she would watch him with eyes that were fuller of love than of understanding.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

I do not hesitate to say that I have taken more trout, of all kinds, on a brown hackle with peacock herl body, than any of the other common wet fly patterns.

From How to Tie Flies by Gregg, Ellery Clark