Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Fly Tying => Topic started by: Mike Barrio on 23/03/2010 at 22:18
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The Endrick Spider named after the River Endrick.
A simple little fly that works well for brown trout in rivers and lochs and for rainbows in lochs and stocked fisheries so it is a very useful one to have in your box.
Materials
Hook : Partridge Capt Hamilton Wet sizes 10 to 18. When march browns and LDOs are about size 12 is best.
Thread : Brown 6/0
Underbody : copper wire
Tail and Thorax : cock pheasant tail centre feather
Rib : oval silver tinsel – small
Hackle : grey partridge
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Build up a small under body of the copper wire
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Catch on the thread and bind down the wire. Build up a small taper at the rear onto the wire so there will be no bumps when you wind on the body.
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Fold 4-5 pheasant tail fibres back a right angles so all the tips are aligned and snip off.
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Tie in the fibres for the tail.
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Snip of the waste, level with the back of the copper underbody and catch in the rib.
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Cut of another 6-8 tail feather fibres and tie in with the points facing towards the eye of the hook. Wind the thread to the front of the copper wire.
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Wind the feather fibres forward and catch off with the thread. Trim the waste and then wind on the rib in the opposite direction and tie off.
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Select a suitably sized grey partridge feather, clean off the fluff at the base.
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Stroke most of the fibres towards the base of the stem.
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Tie in by the tip and trim off waste.
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Fold the hackle fibres towards the tail of the fly and wind on the hackle, keeping on folding the fibres back. Two turns are plenty.
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Tie off the hackle and trim the waste.
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Whip finish and put on a drop of head cement. That’s it.
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