FLY
Spiders
Water Cricket
Tied by Christian Andrews
Water Cricket recipe
| Hook | #14 down eye sproat |
|---|---|
| Thread | orange silk, waxed |
| Body | two layers of thread wrapped back to just past above hook point |
| Hackle | Golden Plover breast, sparse |
About this fly
This is T. E. Pritt’s No. 1 tied with orange silk and Golden Plover. Alternatively tie with yellow silk. Alternatively add a black silk rib. Alternatively use Starling for the hackle
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.
