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Platte River Spider

Streamer · Trout · Steelhead · Intermediate · 2 versions

Charlie's Fly Box dressing

  • Hook Tiemco 200R, 4
  • Thread Black Veevus 14/0

Materials

  • Hot Spot Red Amherst Pheasant Tail
  • Body Yellow and Brown Marabou
  • Flash Rootbeer Krystal Flash
  • Collar Woodduck Mallard Flank
  • Wing Yellow and Furnace Hen Neck Feather
  • Glue Solarez Bone Dry Plus

How to tie it

  1. Mount the 4x streamer hook and start black thread. Wrap a slim gold tinsel or floss body from bend to thorax.
  2. Select two pairs of brown-dyed grizzly hackles and pair them curve-to-curve so they splay outward.
  3. Tie the splayed hackle pairs in at the front of the body as a wing. The splay is what makes the fly pulse and breathe.
  4. Tie in a long, webby brown schlappen feather by the tip.
  5. Take several turns of the schlappen as an oversized collar, sweeping the fibers back so they envelop the wing.
  6. Form a small head, whip finish and cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Classic Recipe.

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