t.z. | Friday, 8 December 2017
simplicity to the max ... maybe a contradiction in terms, but hey. I´ve always been fascinated by spiders ... noooo - not the eight legged creatures - North Country Spiders that is. Traditional flies used by the forefathers of flyfishing. I learned those from Mike Connor. These things are very simple. They have been written many books about these flies and there is a million plus one variants all with funky names and very specific tying instructions ... like a grouse shot by a virgin the first Wednesday after easter and so on. I have not have had the chance let alone the intention to find out if all these specific requirements are true, but I know that the very simple ones I tie catch fish in those "impossible" situations. So I always have a few in my box and regret every year that I haven´t fished them enough ...
The video above shows how to tie a generic NC spider and I appologize already should I have offended the tradition. However, if this gets at least one other angler interesetd in tying these, than I would say "mission accomplished". The tradition lives on ... sort of.
A short word on videos ... I try to make them as short as possible. I hope it is ok for you folks to hit the spacebar once in a while to stop and look rather than looking at a loooong winded explantion by god (in stage artst we call a the intercom voice through the stage monitors gods voice).