Category: North Country Spiders

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

Orange Partridge

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: Orange silk

Body Parts: body, hackle 

Materials: thread, partridge

Notes:

T. E. Pritt No. 32 – Orange Partridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY4v86c22mA

Greensleeves

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: bright green silk

Body Parts: head, hackle, body 

Materials: Peacock herl, Woodcock inner wing, thread

Notes:

T. E. Pritt No. 48 – Greensleeves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH-UlBLFzJ4

Old Master – T. E. Pritt No. 39

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: ash colored silk

Body Parts: body, hackle 

Materials: Heron herl spiral wrapped over thread … sub any dun barb long enough to spiral wrap the body, Woodcock inside wing covert

Notes:

T. E. Pritt No. 39 dressing calls for Heron herl spiraled over the silk body. It is very likely necessary to substitute for the Heron herl, so use any dun feather barb that is long enough for the purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqmJB51oXvU

Poult Bloa

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14 – 15

Thread: yellow or primrose silk

Body Parts: body, hackle 

Materials: very light dubbing of dun hair (optional) over silk thread, grouse poult inner wing

Notes:

The T. E. Pritt dressing for his #37 Poult Bloa calls for yellow silk and a feather from the inner wing of a grouse poult. Here is added a very light dubbing of mole per common variants. The hackle here is hen poult in pale morning dun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPoFUI2tb_E

T. E. Pritt No. 33 Greentail

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: lead color silk

Body Parts: tag, body, hackle 

Materials: green silk, light dubbing of Hare’s face, inside Woodcock wing, Partridge back, or Pheasant hen wing

Notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1nxAlYnZho

Red Clock (Pheasant)

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14

Thread: yellow silk

Body Parts: head, hackle, thorax, body 

Materials: Peacock herl, red feather from Pheasant cock neck, Peacock herl, thread

Notes:

T. E. Pritt #16 in North County Flies

Some say the Pritt made a mistake when he wrote the body to be yellow silk instead of orange silk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuskkg0mAf0