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ALVIN DEDEUX: Hackle pliers are another really helpful tool for palmering your hackle. What
you do is grab the hackle with the pliers, like so. And you got a couple of options at
this point. You can just do your traditional palmering, stick your fingers in the opening
on the hackle pliers and just kinda go around forward. Or if you have a rotary vise with
the bobbin cradle, it really works well to just hold it, like so, and spin your fly.
Especially some of the thinner hackle, the pliers are really nice because it gets a good
grip on the material. And I just keep it in the hackle pliers until I've got it tied off
at the front. Hold it up and clip it. Okay. There you go. Hackle pliers, another great
tool.