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Woodcock and Red Northern Spider Trout Fly - Heritage Range

Woodcock and Red Northern Spider Trout Fly - Heritage Range

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Woodcock and Red Northern Spider Trout Fly - Heritage Range Details:

Model:  MH-5002-14
Bar Code:  886741026079
Brand:  The Essential Fly
Manufacturer:  The Essential Fly
Price Can$:  Can$ 1.7
Price Euro:  €1.22
Price UKŁ:  Ł1.04
Price SEK:  11.23 SEK
Price NOK:  9.52 NOK
Price DKK:  9.02 DKK
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Woodcock and Red Spider

The Woodcock and Red is a great traditional northen spider. 

Use The Woodcock and Red To Catch:


The Woodcock and Red can be used to catch Rainbow Trout

The Woodcock and Red can be used to catch Brown Trout

The Woodcock and Red can be used to catch Grayling



Trout Northen Spider Fly - Woodcock and Red

Wet flies like Woodcock and Red are are range of flies that imitate larva, pupa, drowned adults and Lures

The trout finds most of its food beneath the surface of the water, sometimes by grubbing around the weed-beds, at other times by rising in water to take nymphs and pupae on their way to the surface 

The wet flies which include Black Magic Spider fall into various categories: larval and pupal forms of various aquatic insects; drowned adults or even swamped stillborn flies; and drowned terrestrials such as beetles. Many do not represent anything in nature, but are classed as attractor flies or lures, designed to tempt the fish to take out of curiosity. A number of the silver-bodied flies can emulate small fry or minnows. Most of the dry flies have a wet-fly equivalents. The use of heavier hooks, softer hen hackles instead of cock, and in the case of winged flies a backward-sloping wing, changes the dry fly into a wet one which sinks below the sufrace of the water. Cock hackles are used for these patterns but they are taken from the very young bird where the individual fibres are very soft.

There are two main areas of wet-fly fishing. Firstly, there are the wild rain-fed rivers and streams where it is difficult to see a fish rise let alone see a minute dry fly on the surface. On such waters, wet flies are used almost exclusively upstream and down, as necessity or terrain dictates. The second main area of wet-fly fishing is on atill waters like lakes, lochs and reservoirs, where the angler uses a team of wet flies just below the surface. 

On wild streams while searching for the natural Brownie, soft-hackled wet flies like the Partridge and Orange, the Snipe and Purple, the Black Spider, a wet Coch-y-Bonddu, and many others are used.

'When do you fish a wet fly, and when a dry?' 

Always fish a dry-fly pattern when you see a trout rising during a hatch of natural insects. However, when the trout refuses to rise to a dry fly, fishing just below the surface with a wet fly can often work. When no activity is obvious, it is a case for the wet fly, pure and simple.

The soft, game-bird hackles of many wet flies have the necessary mobility in the water. They pulsate and 'kick' in the current, attracting the fish by their very movement. They look alive and edible; the two key properties for a successful fly.

Wet Fly Woodcock and Red Spider fishing techniques

A technique that has stood the test of time, where the fly (e.g. the Woodcock and Red) is fished sub-surface and is retrieved slowly using a 'Figure-of-Eight' manipulation of the line in the hand. A floating or intermediate line can be used to retrieve the Woodcock and Red

Woodcock and Red Spider - Fly Tying Dressing

For the more adventurous among you we have provided tying specifications for the Black Magic Spider. Remember at The Essential Fly we sell the Woodcock and Red Spider at incredible prices with a top quality fly and service to back it up. It is certainly worth tying the Woodcock and Red Spider yourself to understand the pleasure of catching a fish with your own tied fly, however at the price we sell flies it is only worth tying one or two Woodcock and Red Spider as your can spend more time fishing instead of tying flies - buy volume online with us.

Hook Sizes

14 to 18

Body

Scarlet 11A

Hackle

Woodcock marginal covert

Critical to tying spiders is the sparseness of the hackles. You should not have more than 2 turns of hackle on a northern spider. Less is more!

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Woodcock and Red Northern Spider Trout Fly - Heritage Range Telephone Ordering

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