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

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

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

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 Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman

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

The gut carries three flies—a brown hackle, a coachman, with a Jock Scott at the tail—a rainbow aggregation.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

Little Brown,—feather from inside of Woodcock's wing, red copper coloured silk for body, and brown hackle for legs.

From The Teesdale Angler by Lakeland, R.