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Hi, this is Robert Brown for Expert Village.com and in this clip I am going to be showing
you how to tie in dual hackles. Now dual hackles you will see recipes for fly typing patterns
that will occasionally call for grizzly and brown or grizzly and white simultaneously.
What they are basically saying is that you are going to take a fiber from this and a
fiber from that and you are going to wrap around the hook at the exact same time. One
will be in front of the other and I am going to show you how to set that up and do it.
First thing to do of course is to get your hook ready and have your thread on it. Then
you have to select your hackle fiber. The trick here is selecting as always the correct
size fibers for your hook. You just pull them right on out of their neck and you will have
two pieces of fiber. You want to make sure that they are as close as to the same length
as possible. Doesn’t help you at all to have two that are like completely different
lengths and if it is dry fly hackle, you want to make sure that you down to all the area
on the hackle that does not have any of the fuzzies and you are going to prepare both
of your hackles the same exact way. Just like always you are going to tie your materials
and your hackle stems in on the top of the fly. I’m just doing this on the hook for
the purpose of a demonstration. Now the easiest way to do this is get your two n’s wind
up together and then place them in a pair of hackle pliers. You are going to have kind
of man handle it. When you do it with two it is weird. They will try to twist on you
and do weird stuff. You just start wrapping and working your way forward. All of this
material actually will serve to float and boy that fly upward when it hits the surface.
I could actually take this hook with nothing else but this hackle and with the proper cast
and light drop on the water. This will float all by itself. That is what the hackle fibers
are there for.