FLY
North Country Spiders
Red Clock (Pheasant)
Tied by Christian Andrews
Red Clock (Pheasant) recipe
| Hook | #14 |
|---|---|
| Thread | yellow silk |
| Head | Peacock herl |
| Hackle | red feather from Pheasant cock neck |
| Thorax | Peacock herl |
| Body | thread |
About this fly
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.
What the Red Clock (Pheasant) imitates
- Soft hackle / North Country spider / flymph / wet fly
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Pritt, North-Country Flies (1886), Plate 4, No. 16. 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.
