Don, probably I'm as weired as you asume to be <G>.. I tie with my necks and saddles, but sometimes it is a really pain to pluck a hackle from it. So with my new cree. Used 3 or 4 hackles till now. But tied a lot of Adams with them.
Necks are much more expensive but I like the variety of sizes. Unfortunately there are not so much half necks in the market. Might be a nice alternative to the saddles. Joyce, thanks for the suggestion with Dennis birds. I'll take it in account when I have to get new hackle. Probably he has a dealer in Germany. Regards Rene -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Don Ordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: Dienstag, 11. Juni 2002 23:48 Betreff: Re: [VFB] Hackle >Rene, that is a loaded, complex question. I'll get the ball rolling for >you. > >Hackle preference is always the perfect hackle for the perfect fly. Then go >from there. >How many kinds of feather flies are there? How many kinds of hackles are >there? Now match them. > >How many flies do you need to tie, of which size, of which colors? Hackle >selection can be for perfection, mass quantities, make-do, creative >designing, or whatever. Necks are the best way to go for variety of sizes >and types of flies, and saddles are the way to go for large quantities of >similar sized hackled flies. Cheaper non-genetic necks are great for >bass-bugs and saltwater flies, whereas dry flies require more exacting >qualities, best produced by genetic engineering. > >Your budget comes into play, as does your style of tying. For myself, being >weird as I am, I just collect hackles to look at them. Don't tie much. > >DonO > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Rene Zillmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:02 PM >Subject: [VFB] Hackle > > >> Hi List, >> >> back to ff-topics. >> >> I'm wondering what your preferred hackle are.
