I read some things recently in a book by GEM Skues, and am curious to get opinions. The book is about 80 years old but the information, at least that which I understood, may be just as valuable today as it was then.

I'll be posting threads regarding these things over the next few days. Here's the first:

"The first function of a hackle is to break the fly's fall, to let it down lightly on the water. And that is equally true whether it be a cock's hackle, or a hen's, or a soft hackle from any of the small birds."

The other functions are floatation(dry flies) "and imitation of the legs of the fly".

That sounds accurate to me. What do you think?

Allan