Sparse Dry Spiders

[Rabmax]

Hello all been tying some Dry spiders down into the 20s sizes for next year.I was hanging a dry spider of my favourate snowshoe emergers often last season.The spiders were right up there even out fishing my Snowshoe ones sometimes.I never see anyone else using them where i fish guess there just old fashioned now.Been using cheapish midge capes from the US for the small ones if anyone is interested.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290665465081?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
They are only small capes but still plenty of useful hackles for your money.Cheers

[Malcolm]

I'm a big fan of spiders too wet and dry. I fish the wets on the dropper with a dry on the tail.

The dries I use have light seals fur bodies and I usually cut the hackle from underneath the body. I was shown this style by a bailiff on the Wiltshire Bourne around 1984 although of course this type of fly has been around for ever. He had a box full of them in various colours and sizes and virtually no other patterns.

[Rabmax]

I will need to give them a go with seal bodies as i have loads of seal dubbing anyway.As for clipping the hackle underneath i saw this suggested with Quigleys Cripples too.Cheers

[Black-Don]

When you talk about a dry spider do you mean spiders tied with a cock hackle and possibly wings such as a cock hackled Greenwells Spider or  Greenwells Glory upwing ?

[Fishtales]

When you talk about a dry spider do you mean spiders tied with a cock hackle and possibly wings such as a cock hackled Greenwells Spider or  Greenwells Glory upwing ?

Spiders don't have wings Donald :worried

[Black-Don]

Spiders don't have wings Donald :worried

That's how I'm confused Sandy, I didn't think you got "Dry" spiders. I thought they were either spiders which are wets or dry flies which aren't spiders 

[Malcolm]

Donald,

I've always assumed that dry spiders are the same as hackled dries (i.e. without wings). For example the Beacon Beige or the Bates Badger.

[Fishtales]

That's how I'm confused Sandy, I didn't think you got "Dry" spiders. I thought they were either spiders which are wets or dry flies which aren't spiders 

This is my Dry Fly



And my Draftexcluder Dry Fly



Both have no wings so are spider dries or hackle dries if you prefer

[Black-Don]

O.k. once I've finished the Adams dries I'm tying at the moment I'm going to tie some Parachute Adams' dries before I move onto a few Adams Dry spiders then  :roll:  :makefun

Oh then I'll tie some Griffiths Gnat dry spiders just for good measure !  :lol:

[Black-Don]

This just get's more confusing. North Country Spiders has a Greenwell's Glory listed as a Spider http://www.northcountryflies.com/north-country-flies/1-GG-EL.html



and Phil at Spidersplus has a Black Spider listed as a Dry Black Spider but no picture

http://www.spidersplus.co.uk/shop/results.asp?category=2

I just thought a Spider by definition was a soft hackled wet fly which used a game bird as the hackle but it would seem things ain't quite as clear cut and the square is getting circled somewhere ?  :?