North Country Spiders
Light Watchet
Tied by Christian Andrews
Light Watchet recipe
| Hook | #14 |
|---|---|
| Thread | straw colored silk |
| Abdomen | thread |
| Hackle | Golden Plover |
About this fly
using the recipe in The Art of the Wet Fly by W. S. Roger Fogg
What the Light Watchet imitates
- Iron Blue Dun (dun) Alainites muticus
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Pritt, North-Country Flies (1886), Plate 5, No. 24. 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.






