Among the simplest of flies – perhaps the simplest of them all, except for Oliver Kite’s “Bare Hook Nymph”, which was a hook with a copper wire thorax, are the softhackles, also known as flymphs, spiders and perhaps most correct as North Country Wets. They are in their simplest form a body made of the tying thread (which was often genuine silk thread) and a hackle, often from a plain game bird. These are flies from the days where you would have been thrown out of the pub if you even mentioned that sometime in the future, we would see geneticists breeding birds primarily for the quality of their feathers, for flytying purposes. These flies could very well be as old as flyfishing itself and many of the patterns can be traced back as far as the 18th century. In this video we have our very own Håkan Karsnäser to demonstrate the tying of the Partridge Spider.
Hook: Ahrex North Country Spider LE810 # 12
Thread: Brown
Rib: Hot yellow wire
Body: Hares Ear Dubbing
Hackle: Partridge hackle
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