If they are the old books, the hackles than were short and the quality were not the best. With better hackles now, it only takes one hackle unless you are using two colors. If I were using two different color hackles like grizzly and brown like in the Adams, I would tie the hackles in one in front of the other, wrap the front one first and wrap the second one through the first one.
Tony
Rene Zillmann wrote:
List,
I recently run through some of my tying books.
When it came to hackling a dry fly, they very often called for 2 hackles, which were wound one after the other to build the hackle.
When I tie my own dry flies, I usually take one hackle, especially when I use saddle feathers. How do y'all do this?
Rene
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