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

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

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

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

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.

It is little wonder that they would jump at a brown hackle, a professor or even a gaudy salmon fly.

From The Black Wolf Pack by Beard, Daniel Carter

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 Bradford, Charles Barker