FLY
North Country Spiders
Greenwell Spider (variant)
Tied by Christian Andrews
Greenwell Spider (variant) recipe
| Hook | #14 fine wire - or as desired |
|---|---|
| Thread | primrose silk |
| Body | well waxed primrose silk |
| Rib | waxed primrose silk - alternatively light dub with olive seal |
| Hackle | cock-y-bundhu hen (furnace or similar) |
About this fly
using the recipe in The Art of the Wet Fly by W. S. Roger Fogg the example here tied as a variant with lighter color wax and spotted ginger hen hackle
What the Greenwell Spider (variant) imitates
- Soft hackle / North Country spider / flymph / wet fly
Tied for: Trout (general)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Kelson, The Salmon Fly (1895), Plate 4, No. 4. The photo above is a later tie, not the original.
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.
