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Glass Spider

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Published on Apr 13. 2022 - 2 years ago
Updated or edited 2 years ago

Wet flies

Soft hackles and spiders

Beads

Fly tying and fishing a simple but effective pattern. A partridge hackle tied against a jig-off glass bead gives the impression of an air bubble at the head of a hatching insect with unfolding legs and wings behind.
There many more of my fly designs and new tying materials and methods in my book Fly Couture. You can preview the book at https://nickthomasflytying.myportfolio.com/fly-couture-book
The book is available by print-on-demand at www.blurb.co.uk/b/11011342-fly-couture. The book ships worldwide, simply click the flag icon at the top of the page to select your country or region or go to www.blurb.com for details on how to order in other areas.

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Krystal Flash Soft Hackle Wet Fly

A very simple soft hackle fly pattern that uses Krystal Flash for the body and brown partridge for a hackle.

Jan 2. 2025

Whalsay Hamill's Spider

This is a variant of a Shetland fly that was inspired by the Hamill's Killer streamer from New Zealand.

Dec 18. 2024

Beaded Partridge & Orange

Materials Used;

The North Country Fly

Mar 25. 2015

When it comes to books, there's nothing I like more than focus. A book that has a well defined subject and covers in depth rather than broad has my vote already before I have opened it.
When I then open it and find well structured, thoroughly researched and beautifully presented content from cover to cover, I'm sold!
Such a book is Robert L. Smith's "The North Country Fly".

May 7. 2013

Buying Soft Hackle

The soft hackle is supposed to be - as the name implies - soft. Soft hackle can come from many birds. Chickens, gamebirds like partridge, grouse and quail, pheasant and even crows and jackdaws.

Plu Stiniog

Jul 1. 2011

The story of this books is a fascinating one. The author Emrys Evans passed away in 2008 at the age of 91. In his life he had collected Welsh fly patterns. He was also a historian of Welsh fishing, and kept notes about the flies. After his death these notes were turned into a book manuscript by Geraint Vaughan Jones and the flies were photographed by his son-in-law Gareth Tudor Jones.

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