You can get midge hackle for the smaller ones, or use the tiny feathers on a cape closest to the neck. When I don't want to use the midge hackle, I just use a normal hackle and trim it down....it still floats like a champ. Not the ideal, but it works just as well.
R ______________________________________________ Reuven Segal B. Engineering (Aerospace)- Final Year B. Engineering (Manufacturing Systems and Management) RMIT University 5/11 Rockbrook Road, East St. Kilda, 3183 Melbourne, Victoria Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile: 0422 266798 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Desert Eagle Sent: Sunday, 17 December 2006 3:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [VFB] Hackle Question OK, need some input here. I am trying to get some Griffith gnats ties in 20 down. Problem is the hackle being to long. They look more like a spider than a gnat. Question, is there a particular place on a pelt that will have suitably small enough feathers for hackles this small? Or do you just use the very tip of a dry fly hackle and hope it is right. I am having a dickens of a time finding brown and grizzly hackle to work on these as well as Wardens Worries down to hopefully 22 or 24 if I can. Thanks in advance. Jimi
