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Posted: **Sun May 29, 2011 3:13 pm**

This is from John Reid's Clyde Style Flies,
said to be a good grayling and loch fly.
Reid's Assassin
Hook: #12 wet fly.
Thread: Black.
Tail: Fluo red wool.
Rib: Fine silver wire.
Body: Black thread.
Thorax: Small ball Black Camel.
Hackle: Black hen.

This is using a pale Ginger Dun from Jim.
Ginger Spider
Hook: #12 wet fly.
Thread: Chinese red silk.
Rib: Ginger wire.
Body: Ginger dubbing.
Thorax: Ginger camel
Hackle: Pale ginger dun hen.

This is a Wire spider
Ginger Wire Spider
Hook: Daiichi 1640.
Thread: Fawn.
Body: Ginger UNIWire.
Thorax: Pale fawn dubbing
Hackle: Mid dun hen.

Peacock Spider
Hook: #12 wet fly.
Thread: Brown.
Body: Heavy winding of copper, covered with peacock herl.
Hackle: Furnace hen.

Posted: **Sun May 29, 2011 5:16 pm**

Lovely set of flies, Donald. I especially like the last one. Seems like it could be used as a snail imitation (Stillwater).

Posted: **Sun May 29, 2011 5:49 pm**

The Peacock Spider is a vey well known fly for precisely that.
That particular one is a pretty rough tie. The copper wire underbody is very lumpy, I think I used too heavy a gauge wire.

Posted: **Sun May 29, 2011 6:21 pm**

I like it just the way it is.

Posted: **Sun May 29, 2011 6:26 pm**

VERY Cool.....

Posted: **Sun May 29, 2011 6:32 pm**

Donald, Howdy;

I truly DO like what you do with a few things found laying about.
The bottom one looks like one of the "Crunchy on the outside yet Gooey on the insideones". YUMMY, my favorites !
Thanks for sharing,

hank

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2011 8:52 am**

This is a nice set, Donald. I'm partial to the Ginger fly myself. I like how cohesive the color scheme came out. How are you using the camel dubbing? chopped short and dubbed in a loop, or left long and wrapped as longer fibers? I just picked up a few llama dubbing packs with very long underfur fibers (1"-2"). I'm thinking of laying out a few of a couple colors lined up twisted together like a floss or herls and wrapping them. Any suggestions based on camel, which I assume might be similar.

w

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2011 11:22 am**

Very nice Donald. I especially like seeing the tying thread and the tail in the first one showing through. It just makes them seem more lively.

Vicki

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2011 6:51 pm**

Reid's Assassin has long been my go to midge emerger tied on #18 and smaller. I honestly hardly ever use anything different for that moment of the hatch.

Thanks for sharing Donald.

Posted: **Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:38 am**

William,
With the camel dubbing, I just teased out a rather slim, flimsy few strands
on to the thread and wound into a ball for a thorax. I do like the camel,
but how similar to its relatives I'm not sure.

Vicki,
The showing of the tying thread and the tail was because I rushed the dressing,
I'm finding my eyes tire if I'm on the vise for a while,
and I do tend to keep going when I should go to bed.
I shall dress another closer to the correct dressing and do a comparison.
It will probably make no difference to the fish.

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