[Mike Barrio]

Lake/ Pond Olive Spider

I like to fish these straight across the wind either static or tweaked back in a nice ripple

 
Materials
Hook:       Dohiku HDN Size 12
Thread:      12/0,  14/0 Olive
Rib:      Small UTC Mylar Holographic
Body:      Light Olive Spectrablend
Hackle:      Olive Partridge




Place hook in the vise and catch in thread.




Offer up the rib to the hook, catch in and bind down along the shank, in touching turns, to a point opposite the hook barb (or where it would lie on a barbed hook). OR to a point where you would like the body to begin,  e.g.  a Clyde Style pattern.




Create a dubbing rope of Light Olive and form a tapered body up towards the eye of the hook.




Segment the body with the holographic tinsel and tie off at the point where the hackle will be formed.




Select and strip an olive partridge feather of the flue, stroke enough fibres backwards to satisfy a wrap / wrap and a half of hackle.




Tie in feather by the tip and remove excess fibres.




Wind one/ one and a half turns of hackle and tie off.




Remove Hackle stem and viola! A very simple but effective pattern to use when Olives are about on the Stillwater.




Iain