Information about Spider & Drowning Daddies flies
"Spiders" are created to represent hatching insects caught in the surface of the river - or in the surface film. They are soft hackle patterns which are deadly fished upstream or downstream and were originally from the North of the United Kingdom certainly over 300 years ago.
Black Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1898
Hook Sizes: 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Black Spider is a versatile ancient fly that over the last 160 or so years it has immitated many dark terrestials, large gnats and hawthorns.
Duck Tip
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2429
Hook Sizes: 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Duck Tip is from the border streams (England-Scotland), producing its fair share of fish; whatever the identity of the hatch of natural insects.
Greenwell Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:857
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
This spider was adapted from the most famous of all Britsh flies "Greenwell's Glory" 1854. Ideal for when the Olives are hatching.
Hare's Lug n' Plover
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2025
Hook Sizes: 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Hare's Lug n' Plover is one of the ancient patterns that has not only survived in flyboxes for over 200 years it still accounts for many river trout specially in the early months of the season. Don't discount this when fishing stillwaters it takes alot to beat when large dark olives are present.
Orange Partridge
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2024
Hook Sizes: 12, 14, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Orange Partridge is a wet spider pattern that owes much its continued success over the years to its simplicity.
Partridge and yellow
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1297
Hook Sizes: 14, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Original a wet spider pattern for the Yorkshire, north of England, streams dating far back to the days of horse hair tippets. Skues used and developed the Partridge and yellow as effective fly on the southern chalkstreams.
Reid's Assassin
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2431
Hook Sizes: 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Reid's Assassin isdressed sparsely to imitate as closely as possible the insects on the Clyde, with an interesting tail
Snipe & Purple
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1513
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Snipe & Purple, a "must have" pattern that has been in North of England flyboxes use for over 100 hundred years as a proven productive pattern, imitating the iron blue and other similar naturals.
It is a favourite late in the season.
The movement of the soft supple sniple hackle certainly attract the attention of the fish
Teal and Black
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2432
Hook Sizes: 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The word "spiders" can be fairly misleading to some as the patterns of flies do not actually represent spiders, but rather hatching insects caught in the surface of the river - or in the surface film of a still - water.
Wickham's Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2833
Hook Sizes: 14, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Gold and Black Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2430
Hook Sizes: 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Gold and Black is from the border rivers and streams (England-Scotland), producing its fair share of fish.
Olive Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1903
Hook Sizes: 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Oliver Spider is a successful variant of W C Stewart's series dating back 150 years and it works just as well today.
There are no improvements that have been made - it works !
Stewart's Red Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1897
Hook Sizes: 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Red Spider is an acknowledge winning variant of W C Stewart's classic Black Spider.
The extra hackle give the impression of a rising sedge pupa
with air trapped in its shuck.
Tup's Indispensible Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2358
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Subtle variant that works well in or just under the surface.
Good pattern when pale midge or mayflies are on the water; may also represent light colored mayfly, the pale watery or small spurwing female spinners.
Ant Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1916
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The Ant Spider dates back two hundred years. The colour of the tying silk with the open turn of herl creates an interesting hue that is proven to be highly effective
Black & Claret Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1565
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The Black & Claret Spider can be used to great effect when trout have been feeding just under the surface film on small buzzers.
Black & Peacock Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:844
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Spider are amongst the oldest of all trout flies; reputedly, dating back from the time of Issac Walton and still very much a trout killers today.
It deadly just few inches below the surface and carries on working at all levels down.
It is often speculated that it is an imitation of snails or beetles or caddis flies or small stone flies but not real spiders. What ever any particular trout sees it as they all see it as potentual as food. No flybox should ever arrive at a still water be it pond, lake or reservoir without one
Black and Peacock Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1238
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I used this pattern with success on the lakes of Wales as a good beetle imitation
Black Gnat Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1913
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The natural Black Gnat is common food to the trout and this tying has proved effective over the last 150 years
Black Magic
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1930
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The Black Magic spider pattern Frederick Mold developed to represent small beetle type of insect life with a great deal of success over the last 100 years.
Blue Partridge
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1923
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The Blue Partridge is an attractive and interestly coloured pattern that north of England anglers have found to be highly effective on their streams. It has proved to be an excellent stillwater fly.
Bracken Clock
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1929
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The Bracken Clock spider pattern developed to represent small beetle type of insect life with a great deal of success over the last 100 years.
Bresson Sedge
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1526
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It was created as a night time sedge pattern, best fished on or near the surface film, as with the similar looking north of England spider pattern.
Broughtons Point
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1933
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The Broughtons Point is a winged spider that success dates back to the late 19th century
Brown Watchet
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1925
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The Brown Watchet is a dependable variation of the North of England ancient Watchet series and has the additional peacock herl head.
Claret Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1901
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The colourful Claret Spider has proved effective on rivers and stillwaters for 150 years, fished singularly or as part of a team.
Cran Swallow
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1889
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The Cran Swallow is from the border streams (England-Scotland), producing its fair share of fish; whatever the identity of the hatch of natural insects.
Daddy No Legs Goldhead
Availablity:
Flybox Code:691
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A pattern devised with Paul Wraight, a regular to Albury’s Vale End fishery.
It looks just like the name suggests, a Legless Daddy, but it actually does well as a sunk buzzer pattern.
Fish this one in the spring in about three to four feet of water and watch for takes on the drop.
Dark Moor Game
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1907
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The Dark Moor Game is a north county wet pattern that is often best early in the season on a team of three with great results on stillwaters.
Dark Olive Bloa
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1516
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The Dark Olive Bloa has been in North of England flyboxes for 150 hundred years. It is a favourite in the spring, a proven productive pattern that imitating various naturals.
Dark Watchet
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1919
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The Dark Watchet has been a dependable pattern for fly fishermen in the north of England for over 150 years. Best when dark coloured duns and spinners are on the water.
Doobry
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2359
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It has plenty of colour and interesting movement.
Favourite for reservoir fly fishers.
Good on the bob when using floating line.
Dun and Orange
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1899
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The Dun and Orange is a very effective pattern when the spinners are on the water
Early Brown
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1887
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An essential pattern for more northerlystreams, particularly those with a population of the Stonefly, of which this old pattern is a reliable imitation
Greensleeves
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1908
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The Greensleeves on its day takes a lot to beat.
Grey Midge
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1928
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The Grey Midge is a tried and true all season spider pattern for over a century.
Henthorne Purple
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1931
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Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
The Henthorne Purple spider pattern developed to represent terrestrial insect life with a great deal of success over the last 100 years.
July Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1892
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The July Dun is as its name implies at its best in the mid summer often when the pale wateries are active.
Small,nimble and sprightly nymph dun that rushes around weeds and reeds.
Large Ant
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1893
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The Large Ant, a winged north country wet, has been an excellent catcher of trout since its' conception in the 19th century. There absolutely no reason that is wet fly will not work its magic on any stream
Light Pheasant Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1918
Trade Only
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The Light Pheasant Spider is an old reliable fly, definitely not to forgotten.
Light Spanish Needle
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1927
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The Light Spanish Needle is a reliable early season spider pattern.
Light Woodcock
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1909
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Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
The Light Woodcock is a versatile fly to have in ones' flybox because it is taken for a number of different nymphs and larva.
Little Brown Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1914
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The style of tying the Little Brown Spider dates back two hundred years. The colour of the tying silk with the open turn of herl creates an interesting hue that is proven to be highly effective
Little Brown Winter
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1917
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The Little Brown Winter is suggested by Pritt in the 1880s' as an imitation of the Needle fly. Continues to be a reliable pattern.
Little Dark Watchet
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1922
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The Little Dark Watchet is an old and reliable pattern fro when the Iron Blue are on the water
March Brown Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1890
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The March Brown Spider has for decades been a successful pattern on rivers, and those anglers who are prepared to try will find success with this fly on stillwaters.
March Brown Winged Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1891
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The March Brown Winged Spider has for decades been a successful pattern on rivers, and those anglers who are prepared to try will find success with this fly on stillwaters.
Moorhen & Purple Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1566
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The Moorhen & Purple Spider is tied short and can represent a number of iron blue upwinged flies in a emergent state
Old Master
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1915
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The 'Old Master' is recorded in T E Pritt's Yorkshire Trout Flies 1885 as good summer pattern and still today it is an excellent choice.
Olive and Ginger Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1902
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The Olive and Ginger Spider is always worth have as one of your team during the summer months, singularly when small light sedges and cowdung flies are on the water
Olive Bloa
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1895
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The Olive Bloa is a great standby to have in ones flybox wherever you may be, on a north of England stream or a rough and tumbling brook.
Peute
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2219
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Poult Bloa
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1510
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The Poult Bloa has been in constant use for 200 hundred years as a proven productive pattern, imitating the pale watery and other similar naturals.
Red and Black Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1905
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The deadly colour combination of the Red and Black Spider has stood the test of time earning its place singularly or as one of a team.
Rob's Daddy
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1825
Trade Only
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Based on the sunken Daddy, that was originally tied by Dennis Swyer.
See also fly 2073 for the Gold Head version.
Sandy Moor Game
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1906
Trade Only
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The Sandy Moor Game is a north county wet pattern that is often use on a team of three with great results on stillwaters, in the summer.
Sid's GH Daddy
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1670
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Sid devised the Goldhead Daddy Longlegs as a stalking fly for the angler who fishes Big Fish Water where the water is clear, so he can target the fish he is after.
Snipe & Yellow
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1514
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The Snipe & Yellow has been in North of England flyboxes use for over 100 hundred years as a proven productive pattern, imitating various naturals. It is a favourite often during bad weather late in the season.
The movement of the soft supple sniple hackle certainly attract the attention of the fish
Snipe Bloa
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1515
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The Snipe Bloa has been in North of England flyboxes and in constant usefor close to 200 hundred years, still a proven productive pattern that imitating various naturals.
It is a favourite in the spring and again in the autumn. The soft movements of the supple sniple hackle unmistakably attracts the attention of the fish.
Spectral Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2134
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Starling Bloa
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1512
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The Starling Bloa has been in constant use for over 100 hundred years as a proven productive pattern, imitating the pale watery and other similar naturals. It is a favourite on late summers evenings.
Stewart's Black Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1896
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The Black Spider created by W C Stewart 150 years ago is the 'classic' spider.
The extra hackle give the impression of a rising sedge pupa
with air trapped in its shuck.
Stonefly
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1900
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The Stonefly spider comes into its own when needle flies and or willow flies are present.
Thornfly Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1926
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The Thornfly Dun is an acttractively colour spider pattern that dates back 150 years and still is dependerable when out on the streams and brooks.
Waterhen and Yellow
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1911
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The Waterhen and Yellow is an old subtle variant that works well in or just under the surface.
Waterhen Bloa
Availablity:
Flybox Code:887
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This famous pattern was devised by T E Pritt in the early to mid 1800's; and is a standard in North of England's river wet fly river fly fisherman's flybox, and has been for best part of the last two centuries.
Although it was intended as a wet river pattern it has proved successful on brooks and is a first class loch fly.
Wet Daddy
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Flybox Code:2205
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The Wet Daddy is a superb example of a fly pattern that really works. Fished deep, near the surface or on the drop, fast or slow retrieve -- doesn't seem to matter, its the movement that is the key. This is a must in a stillwater flybox.
White Ptarmigan
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Flybox Code:1932
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The White Ptarmigan spider pattern developed to represent terrestrial insect life with a great deal of success over the last 100 years on rivers and stillwaters
William's Favourite
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Flybox Code:1912
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The original old north country classic 'William's Favourite' that was originally devised in the mid 1800s', had a black hackle fibre tail, however without the tail it now is enjoying a rejuvenation as a stillwater buzzer
Winter Brown
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1924
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The winter Brown is a simple hackle with a peacock herl head that will create a little move movement.
Winter Brown
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Flybox Code:1888
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The Winter Brown is a reliable imitation of the small thin needle flies that appear as early as febuary on North of England streams. A great taker of early trout, its' also a wise choice for an October grayling cast.
Wire Spider
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Flybox Code:778
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Excellent small fly for Trout and Grayling
Yellow and Ginger Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1904
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The Yellow and Ginger Spider is a great summer pattern on rivers for where it was created and stillwaters where it often surprisingly excells.
Yellow Legged Bloa
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Flybox Code:1894
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The Yellow Legged Bloa is a old winged north country wet, that has proved successful on its home waters since the 19th century, also on stream, rivers and creeks globally
Yellow Legged Bloa
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Flybox Code:1511
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The Yellow Legged Bloa is a well established spider pattern and is a favourite in the early months of the season