Spiders

Spiders tend to be much more lightly dressed than traditional nymphs and generally don’t have tails. They are tied to represent the the nymphal stage of an insects life cycle.

Black & peacock

Flies that represent spiders and beetles 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.

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