Greenwell's Spider

[GlassJet]

Very nice tie Andrew.
I prefer mine the way Edmonds & Lee state in their book which has split wings of Starling. In this guise the Greenwell's is one of my most deadliest patterns.

Wings, I am moving on to - confession time - I have never tied a wet winged fly - or not with slips anyway. There, I've said it now.

Andrew.

PM Coming your way Andrew

Got around to having a go at this.


Apologies for posting winged fly etc - but it is a one off...

The wing is formed from a section of a single feather, and folded ('scrunched' would be a better word for my approach! lol) then tied in and split. This was my third attempt - the first two did not warrant close examination! I'm sure I've used the wrong feather for this one, but when I saw its edges tinged like that, it seemed to chime rather well with the Greenwell's hen hackle... and it was the only one of the three where the two wings were anything like even!

Thanks for the instructions in the pm Philip (flyfishwithme) and apologies if I haven't done them justice!

All comments, suggestions etc gratefully received! Bit of a gap in my fly tying education, not being able to tie a wet wing... edited to say: wing is starling wing feather, of course...

Andrew.

[flyfishwithme]

Very good attempt Andrew. The Greenwell's tied this way account for the majority of fish I catch especially when fishing it upstream. This year it has taken over 60% of fish. Persevere with it mate and you will discover another depth to fishing hackled flies.

[GlassJet]

I have to say, I was a little bit 'ho hum' about these wet winged flies, but once I saw this one in the water, tied like this, I thought there was some serious 'kick' there, and was well worth a try. Bad day today as chronicled elsewhere, but will definitely be having another go.