FLY
Brown Hackle
Brown Hackle recipe
| Hook | #12 - 18 dry |
|---|---|
| Thread | Body: black; Head: red |
| Tag | black thread |
| Body | Peacock herl |
| Front Hackle | brown dry fly |
| Head | red thread |
About this fly
This fly is illustrated by Charles Orvis in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury. It was most likely fished as a dry fly, but could be tied as a wet or soft hackle wet. Lay down a base of black thread; build a black thread tag and take thread to an eye length behind eye.Tie in three (or appropriate for hook size to build a full body) Peacock herl, and thread wrap to just before tagCreate a herl rope; touching wrap the herl back to tie in point; tie off and clip extraWhip finish or half hitch the black thread and cut threadTie in red thread between eye and bodyTie in a brown hackle feather; wrap the front hackle; tie in and clip extrafinish wrapping a read head; whip finish; head cement.
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate A, No. 7. The photo above is a later tie, not the original.
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.
