Quote Originally Posted by quivira kid View Post
Went to the tackle shop this morning and got a pack of loose hackle. Gonna try some hackle tails for the first time! Now the question is this: how many feathers per tail? Three seems to look about right, but I don't know.

Zac
I tie my neck hackle tails different than most and some have taken my way as their way also. I like the looks and wanted mine to just be different. Most people use 2 hackle tips for their tails and I use just one, but I cut the rest of my feather into small V's. So I cut the tip length I want and then I cut the rest of the stem about every 1/4" until I get to the fuzzy stuff and stop. I use the one tip and 2 of the little V's I made to do the tail.

I did a little slid show for the guys here so if they wanted to do it my way they would know what I do. I also take one step a lot don't and that is when I buy my strung neck hackle I try to find 4"-6" long neck hackle and it cost about 2 times what the 3"-5" cost, but I like the wide webby feathers I get and they make for better little V's.

You can look at my site and see lots of side photos that show the tip and then you can see all the barbules sticking back along that tip and kind of looks like hair, but it's feathers and I think much like your less is more thing here I think I get more action and my customers seem to catch a lot of crappie. Have had several say they were able to catch over 300 on one jig.

Slide show link....
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...tying-jig.html

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