FLY
Spiders
Yellow-legged Bloa Spider
Tied by Christian Andrews
Yellow-legged Bloa Spider recipe
| Hook | #14 fine wire |
|---|---|
| Thread | primrose silk, heavily waxed |
| Body | thread |
| Hackle | ginger |
About this fly
The Yellow-legged Bloa in Pritt’s North-County Flies is winged and not a spider. W. S. Roger Fogg says the spider in The Art of Wet Fly is Pritt’s Yellow-legged Bloa; so there is that.
What the Yellow-legged Bloa Spider imitates
- Mayfly dun (adult dry)
Tied for: Trout (general)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Pritt, North-Country Flies (1886), Plate 6, No. 27. 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.
