Posts Tagged ‘Spiders’
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I am a firm believer that when fishing rivers you have to get down to where the fish are holding and also that flies particularly in faster running water should include “hot spots”. Bead head spiders are an important part of my bead head ‘nymph’ fly box because that help satisfy both of those criteria. I like to fish them either on the point or first dropper and find that are a great adjunct to a second weighted fly or an unweighted nymph, wee wet or spider.
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{{+1}}Hot butt spider – Chatto’s tie{{-1}}
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Bead Head spider type flies are amongst the best flies for fishing fast rivers and streams. They are suggestive little flies and the combination of buggy shape, the peacock herl body, the movement of the soft hackle and the trigger of the hot butt often produce a hit. This mid water fly is suggestive of a drowned beetle. I tie the hot but in both fluoro fire orange and chartreuse as I find they are the best two trigger colours for trout. The orange works best either end of the river season and chartreuse comes into its own during the middle of the season when cased caddis are more prevalent.{{end}}
Last Updated: January 24, 2011
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{{+1}}TBH thread spiders{{-1}}
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Bead Head thread spider type flies are amongst the best flies for fishing fast rivers and streams. They are suggestive little flies and the combination of buggy shape, the movement of the soft hackle often produce a hit. There is also the added benefit that they are so easy to tie. I carry both orange and chartreuse versions of this fly.{{end}}
{{+1}}Black and peacock{{-1}}
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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 corixia. 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.{{end}}