DIY Hackle Guard
Sat at work mulling going for a cigarette and had a little bit of inspiration.
The metal cap at the top of a disposable lighter looks to me like a perfectly suitable hackle guard - a small hole with a gap for the thread to pass through, also the opening can be made wider by levering it apart slightly for larger flies/hackles.
Was considering buying a hackle guard and think I might just have saved myself a few quid!
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Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine,
No blood of living insect stain my line;
Let me, less cruel, cast feather'd hook,
With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook,
Silent along the mazy margin stray,
And with fur-wrought fly delude the prey
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