Greenwell's Spider North Country - Heritage Range
The Greenwell's Spider is a great traditional northen fly. Another great fly from Mike Harding's book on Northern Spider Patterns. The Greenwell's Spider is a gerneral purpoose olive iimitation, either a dun or a nymph. This is a very important artificial fly world-wide.
The Greenwell's spider uses soft Greenwell hen hackle to make a spider version of this old favourite first designed by Canon Greenwell. The thread should be waxed with dark cobbler's wax until it becomes olive. This is one of Mike's favourite flies for late summer when the river is low and the evenings long. Mike will fish this together with a hackled version of Whyckham's Fancy
Use The Greenwell's Spider To Catch:
 | The Greenwell's Spider can be used to catch Rainbow Trout |
 | The Greenwell's Spider can be used to catch Brown Trout |
 | The Greenwell's Spider can be used to catch Grayling |
Mike Harding - Heritage Range of Flies
Our Mike Harding Range of Northern Fly patterns are tied to the traditional patterns. The flies are all designed from Mike's excellent book on Northern Spider patterns. Check it out, it is really good!
Tied as part of our Heritage Range these flies are tied with real silk and the best quality materials - just as these flies should be . We love these flies, they look great and most importantly these flies catch fish!
Greenwell's Spider - Fly Tying Dressing
For the more adventurous among you we have provided tying specifications for the Greenwell's Spider. Remember at The Essential Fly we sell the Greenwell's Spider at incredible prices with a top quality fly and service to back it up. It is certainly worth tying the Greenwell's 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 Greenwell's Spider as your can spend more time fishing instead of tying flies - buy volume online with us.
Hook Sizes | 12, 14 and 16 |
Body | tying thread0 |
Hackle | Very light grey / white under covert feather |
Greenwells Spider Northern Country Trout Fly was last modified on 06/04/2021 12:06
