FLY
Spiders
Water Cricket
Tied by Christian Andrews
Water Cricket recipe
| Hook | #14 fine wire |
|---|---|
| Thread | yellow or orange silk |
| Rib | optional: black silk thread |
| Hackle | Golden Plover summer breast or Starling wing/back |
About this fly
T. E. Pritt No. 1 Pritt calls the hackle on the fly a wing. silk ought to be waxed so as to preserve it the body only need two layers of thread the rib on this fly is optional
What the Water Cricket imitates
- Cricket (adult)
- Terrestrial (other: bees, flies, dung/hawthorn) (adult)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Pritt, North-Country Flies (1886), Plate 1, No. 1. 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.
