I tied em like that for years, and then one day a friend showed me that if you tie in some wire at the back, tie in the body, wrap the body forward, then tie in the BUTT of the hackle at the FRONT, and wrap BACK, and then wrap the wire forward over the hackle, the fly lasts MUCH longer. The browns out here have sharp teeth and cut hackle within the first few fish, usually. The wire counterwrap holds down the hackle in ten or twelve places, rather than just two.

Try it.

Dennis