Spider type flies like the Black and Peacock are very buggy and suggestive flies. Weather being used as a polaroiding fly, a static wet, one of the flies in a team of loch style flies, or a fly to cover rising fish spider type soft hackle flies may be taken as a snail, submerged beetle, drowned terrestrial, diving beetle or even a carixia. Alternatively the fish may just pick them up because of the movement of the soft hackle or the suggestive buggy nature of the overall shape. In any case they are a worthwhile addition to your fly box.

Whilst Black and Peacock is an obvious choice, soft hackle spider type flies dress with grey or carrot bodies also work well.

Materials

Process

A	Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of the hook. Understanding hooks Tie in a length of copper wire if your going to rib the fly. Segments on flies Tie in your dubbing material or your peacock herl. Dubbing techniques

B	Either dub on a plump body of good quality dubbing material along the back 3/4 of the hook shank, or Tie in several strands of peacock herl. Form the herl into a herl rope. Wind the herl rope along the rear 3/4 of the hook shank to form an acorn shaped body. Trim the excess herl. Roping peacock herl

C	If your ribbing the fly wind the copper wire along the body of the fly forming 3 or 4 segments. Tie the copper wire off in front of the body and worry the excess copper wire off. Select a slightly oversize hen hackle and tie it in by the butt and take just 1 to 3 turns of the hackle in front of the body. Spider type legs

D	Tie the hackle off and trim the excess. Slide the fingers of your left hand onto the fly from the front gently stroking the hackle fibres backward. Build up a neat head of thread. Thread heads

E	Trim the thread and varnish the head.