Quote Originally Posted by AlanB View Post
If it wasn't for the four with thoraxes behind the hackle they could pass for North Country spiders. (On NCS's the thorax would be eye side of the hackle). I'm surprised as I was told the hackles on soft hackles are far heavier than NCS.
Cheers,
A.
Alan, I was just reading Fogg and he advocates a small bump behind the hackle to keep the hackle from laying flat against the hook shank. Also many of the old patterns call for just one to two wraps of hackle, never more.