Back to some familiar tyings

I simply love my upstream spider fishing, and it probably accounts for 90% of my fly fishing throughout the year, probably because it was what I was taught when I first started fly fishing all those years ago on the River Clyde & its main tributary the River Avon.

River Avon "doon the Braes" where I learned the art of fly fishing.

The usual clyde style patterns were used combined with the traditional spider patterns.

Today I still like to use the traditionals and since moving to Yorkshire find the flies I used back then are just as relevant today and more so in Yorkshire with a lot of the North Country Spiders originating from the places I fish today such as Swaledale & Wensleydale.

 Woodcock & red a fly that has accounted for a lot of trout & Grayling over the years for me and always a go to fly if struggling.










A twist to the original, woodcock & lime, very good when light olives are hatching.

& finally a partridge & orange variant with a touch of peacock herl, another productive fly on the rivers around Yorkshire that I fish.