Salt water Spiders

Say sparsely dressed again!

By Martin Joergensen

The least dressed fly of all
The classic spider fly has to be one of the least dressed flies of all times. A slender body and a thin hackle - and that's it.

It works in a stream so why shouldn't it work in the sea? My own fly The Umbrella is not that far from a spider, and that works. Even in very large sizes the spider has to be a dream to cast - light in all ways - and yet the soft hackle will have all the life you can want.

The appearence of this fly relies heavily on a nice, smooth tinsel body.

Hook	Size 2 Kamasan B840
Thread	Bennechi 0/12
Body	Flat silver or gold tinsel
Rib	Oval silver or gold tinsel
Hackle	Sparse front hackle from soft black hen
Head	Small from dubbing thread

Two spiders on large salt water resistant hooks.

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