I have been tying reverse hackle on all my buggers for over a year. I tie in the tail, run the bobbin with thread to the front behind the eye, tie in the hackle at the stem, after removing the fluff part of the feather, tie in the chenille body material, run the bobbin and thread to the hook bend just in front of where the tail was tied in, wrap the chenille to the back and tie off with the thread, palmer the hackle back and tie it in at the same location as the chenille, palmer the bobbin and thread through the hackle back to just behind the eye and then whip finish. Makes a very durable fly and the palmered hackle seems to lay better doing it this way in my own opinion.

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Warren