It realy is not that hard to tie the one that is in Fly tyer.Just take your time and give it a try, you will impress yourself
Frank
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It realy is not that hard to tie the one that is in Fly tyer.Just take your time and give it a try, you will impress yourself
Frank
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The spider patterns that I'm familiar with go back back fifty years and more. They use a very short shanked hook whose shank doesn't extend much past the hook point, and they have a turned up eye. Usually they were a size 14 or so. I'm not sure that hook is available today but I still have a few...Mustad made them. Anyway, they were a dry fly. You tied them sparsely with over-sized hackle, usually badger or cochybondou (I think I spelled that right) hackles. There was no body or tail; just the hackle, and the fly floated vertically with the hook down. I still have a few in one of my fly boxes but must admit that I haven't tried to use them for years.
If this doesn't work I give up
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My spider is called a starling and purple.
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The realism is great...real talent.
Showing my ignorance...the hackled flies...are they dries?
To me they look like soft hackle flies...I don't get the spider stuff....now those other ones ...I backed away lest I be bitten!!!!
those are soft hackled wet flies.
Hans,
Love your photos and tying as usual but I have a bone to pick with you. The Snipe and Purple is my fovorite cold weather fly and I fish it more than anyone I know. (Makes an expert out of me sometimes). Of course I'm always interested in new ties of it and yours is quite unusual (its the seal fur thing). I think that it deserves a name of its own! The "Weilenman Purple" or somehing like that. My personal preference for the fly is the use of fine wire short shank hooks in sizes down to 20. Still a little big for our midges but close to the tiny olives we get on warm winter days! And they're easier and faster to tye.
Regards'
Bill Lavris
Ducksterman,
When the North Country Spiders (a.k.a. Yorkshire Spiders) crossed the Big Pond you 'merkins' just could not leave well alone, now could ya? ;-)
You just had to make things awkward and give them a new name (Softhackles) and confuse and confound the rest of the angling world by fishing them on a classic wet fly swing, not the, often deadly, (quarter) upstream cast, followed by a dead drift as they were designed to do.
Sheesh...
Hans W
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