Category: North Country Spiders

T. E. Pritt No. 18: Little Dark Watchet / Iron Blue Dun

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: Orange silk

Body Parts: body, rib, hackle 

Materials: orange and purple silk twisted together, sprarsely dubbed water rat, Jackdaw or Coot wing

Notes:

T. E. Pritt No. 18: Little Dark Watchet / Iron Blue Dun

muskrat work well for the water rat

and dark waterfowl wing feather will work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joDS0iRIiz0

T. E. Pritt No. 55: Cinnamon

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: yellow silk

Body Parts: body, rib, hackle 

Materials: thread, lightly dubbed water rat (sub muskrat), brown owl (sub partridge butt feather)

Notes:

Original recipe calls for water rat dubbed rig and brown owl hackle. Sub muskrat for the dubbed rib and a Partridge butt feather for the hackle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUWxd0rc3Tk

Sandy Moorgame – T. E. Pritt No. 43 (variant)

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: brown silk

Body Parts: head, hackle, body 

Materials: Magpie herl, English red grouse back, thread

Notes:

T. E. Pritt No. 43: Sandy Moorgame (variant)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9OYmzbcqs

Hackled Derbyshire March Brown

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: orange silk

Body Parts: body, rib, hackle 

Materials: thread, fox ear fur dubbed and spiral wrapped, rich red brown crested Partridge rump feather

Notes:

using the recipe in The Art of the Wet Fly by W. S. Roger Fogg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOpHrlWdWFw

Hackled March Brown

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: brown silk

Body Parts: rib, body, underbody, hackle 

Materials: primrose silk, mixed dark hare’s ear and brown seal, dubbed and spiral wrapped, brown floss (originally silk floss), brown partridge

Notes:

a soft hackled wet fly using the recipe and instructions from The Art of the Wet-Fly by W. S. Roger Fogg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmhAW9GBGw4

Light Watchet

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: straw colored silk

Body Parts: abdomen, hackle 

Materials: thread, Golden Plover

Notes:

using the recipe in The Art of the Wet Fly by W. S. Roger Fogg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jSHxvUqzME

Autumn Dun

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: brown silk

Body Parts: body, hackle 

Materials: Pheasant tail barbs, brown partridge

Notes:

using the recipe in The Art of the Wet Fly by W. S. Roger Fogg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSNT7r65J28

Woodcock and Orange

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: orange silk

Body Parts: abdomen, hackle 

Materials: thread, Woodcock outside covert

Notes:

Sylvester Nemes says it its difficult to tell the difference between a grouse hackle and a Woodcock hackle. The fly in The Soft-Hackled Fly is called the Grouse and Orange.

Here, Woodcock was used; and so the name Woodcock and Orange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0aIoNSYiLY

T. E. Pritt No. 8 (variant)

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: yellow silk

Body Parts: body, hackle 

Materials: light spiral dubbing over thread; original – water rat, substitute – muskrat, original – water hen, substitute – black inner covert feather

Notes:

T. E. Pritt’s No. 8 is the Water Hen Bloa which calls for water rat dubbing and water hen inner covert feather hackle. This example is tied with muskrat and a wild turkey inner wing covert feather for the hackle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Uky6n1msM

Gray Partridge

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: straw colored silk

Body Parts: head, hackle, body 

Materials: Peacock herl, Partridge breast, thread

Notes:

T. E. Pritt’s No. 57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJfUYDfOp_g