Pictures

Body and front hackle on a tube

Selecting a feather

A small Bugger

Charlie flies

The body hackle gives volume

Palmered body hackle

Salmon fly hackles

Even the tail is a hackle

Classic wet fly hackle

Modern, genetic hackle feather

Spey hackle

Swept back wet fly hackle

A small throat hackle

Many types of hackles

A bushy dry fly

Hackle or wing? Same, same ...

Parachute hackle

Several separate hackles

A stiff body hackle

Long hackles

Just body and hackle

Colored hackles add style

Shrimp or grub style hackles

Is it a hackle at all?

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The GFF money box

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