Greenwell Spider (variant)

Greenwell Spider (variant)

North Country Spiders

Tied By Christian Andrews

Hook: #14 fine wire – or as desired

Thread: primrose silk

Materials-

body: well waxed primrose silk

rib: waxed primrose silk – alternatively light dub with olive seal

hackle: cock-y-bundhu hen (furnace or similar)

Notes:

using the recipe in The Art of the Wet Fly by W. S. Roger Fogg

the example here tied as a variant with lighter color wax and spotted ginger hen hackle