| These flies may have brightly coloured bodies or long hackles and we can only guess at what the trout think they are. |
| Her eyes practically exploded with flames and her hair rose a little, like a dog rising its hackles. |
| Different coloured hackle fibres for tail and throat hackles can work well. |
| I clip off all the bottom and top hackles leaving the side hackles to ensure the fly sits in the surface film. |
| Politically incorrect from the title on, this guide to old-fashioned coquetry has raised the hackles of every feminist writer worth her salt. |
| Their thick hackles rose and their lips curled back into snarls as they spotted the two. |
