CHAPTER VI. 



HACKLES, JOINTED BODIES, AND GRUBS. 



OW to double hackles. Before being 

 tied in, cock's hackles, whether dyed 

 or natural, should be what is called 

 * doubled.' The illustration shows 



the same hackle before and after being doubled. 



The object of shaping the 



feather so, is to enable you to 



roll it down the body with all 



the fibres pointing towards the 



tail. If the feather were not 



doubled, you could not wind 



it properly. The old way of 



putting on the hackle was to 



strip off one side entirely of 1 



two hackles, and roll them 



both together ; this is done 



now with feathers which have 



curved fibres, and when two 



different coloured hackles are 



required up the body. There 



Fig. 40. 



are several ways of doubling hackles. The first, 



