hackles for Palmers should consist of red, dun, yellow, orange and black, they should not by any means exceed half an inch in length.
"The Teesdale Angler"
R Lakeland
Skag's hand dropped and he felt the rising hackles, before his eyes left Carlin's.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
I think it is Washington Irving who has so admirably depicted the mortification of a dandy angler, who, with his beaver garnished with brown hackles, his well-posed rod, polished gaff, and handsome landing-net, with every thing befitting, spends his long summer day whipping a trout stream without a rise or even a ripple to reward him, while a ragged urchin, with a willow wand, and a bent pin, not ten yards distant, is covering the greensward with myriads of speckled and scaly backs, from one pound weight to four; so it is in every thing-"the race is not to the swift;" the elements of success in life, whatever be the object of pursuit, are very, very different from what we think them at first sight, and so it was with Mr. O'Leary, and I have more than once witnessed the triumph of his homely manner and blunt humour over the more polished and well-bred taste of his competitors for favour; and what might have been the limit to such success, heaven alone can tell, if it were not that he laboured under a counter-balancing infirmity, sufficient to have swamped a line-of-battle ship itself.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
