Thanks Betty! That "soft blue/grey" is sort of what I thought, but wanted to double check. I'm a big fan of the north country spider flies, and have all sorts of colour/hackle combinations. However, I cannot find snipe in any of my local fly shops, and only recently found some blue floss (UNI floss's royal blue). I had luck awhile back with some white bodied, white hackled (hen hackle), pale yellow head spider. Not sure what the fish were taking it as, but it was the only fly working that day. Hmmm, should have tried it again this last trip, but I was keen to try the blue ones.

- Jeff