Cast from the Past

Who am I to argue with the experts? If a new soft-hackle pattern calls for the left anterior covert feather from a Bulgarian hen partridge, why take a chance with a simple chicken hackle that looks almost the same?

Harry Campbell on fly-tying
January/February 1989
 
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