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Little Blue Spider
How do you tie a Little Blue Spider?
Little Blue Spider is a wet fly pattern for trout. Find its 4 materials and 6 tying steps below.
- Difficulty
- 2 of 5
- Target species
- trout
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At the vise
Materials
- Hook: Down Eye Wet, 14-18
- Thread: Pearsall’s Gossamer Silk, Grey
- Rib: Pearsall’s Gossamer Silk, Blue
- Hackle: Starling
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Tying instructions
Pull 18 inches of silk from the bobbin and wax with fly tyers wax and respool
Secure the hook in the vice and start the silk on the hook
Tie in blue silk and wrap the grey silk to the bend and back up to just behind the eye
Wrap blue silk in open spirals to rib fly, tie off, and trim
Tie in starling body feather by the tip, and palmer 2-3 times, tie off, and trim
Whip finish fly with 2-3 turns