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The brown hackle which killed twelve of the eighteen was on a No. 8 hook; the other two flies were tied on No. 16, as the hackle should have been, for the fish were small and the stream was in a small-fly condition and quite right for the daintiest leaders and the finest midges.

In fishing a trout stream in northern Michigan I was using a cast of a Parmachenee belle and a brown hackle.

My choice of sea trout flies includes: Brown Hackle.

Mary Orvis Marbury's wonderful volume on artificial flies and fly-fishing, and 130 of them declared the Brown Hackle their favorite pattern.

Under arching willow, and by promising rock, his brown hackle flickered temptingly, placed by an expert hand.