FLY
North Country Spiders
Hackled March Brown
Tied by Christian Andrews
Hackled March Brown recipe
| Hook | #14 |
|---|---|
| Thread | brown silk |
| Rib | primrose silk |
| Body | mixed dark hare’s ear and brown seal, dubbed and spiral wrapped |
| Underbody | brown floss (originally silk floss) |
| Hackle | brown partridge |
About this fly
a soft hackled wet fly using the recipe and instructions from The Art of the Wet-Fly by W. S. Roger Fogg
What the Hackled March Brown imitates
- Mayfly dun (adult dry)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate S, No. 174. 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.
