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Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:49 am
by Hans Weilenmann
Stew's Glassy Spider
Hook: Kamasan B175 #14
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, grey
Body/hackle: Hen, glassy dun and peocock herl - twisted together
Note: With a nod and a wink towards Stewart's Black Spider
Cheers,
Hans W
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:19 am
by kacbo
WOW!!!
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:47 am
by daringduffer
Classy!
I bet my graylings will love this fly.
At least without my tippet attatched.
dd
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:57 am
by hankaye
Hans, Howdy;
Careful, Ralphy could poke his eye out with that !!!
Beautiful tye.
hank
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:45 am
by CM_Stewart
Don't know whether a dour Scot would approve, but I bet the fish will!
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:14 pm
by gingerdun
Hans,
Your handsome pattern has attributes of Leisenring's favorite flies, including the Red Hackle and the Gray Hackle.
Here is a terrible photo, but the best I have, of his Gray Hackle. He preferred the red-bronze peacock herl, and this is not palmered either, but the resemblance is there nonetheless
.
Lance
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:59 pm
by Mataura mayfly
Hans,
Is there going to be a video tutorial on this method? I cannot get my head around how you twist the hackle and herl and still get the hackle to palmer like that!
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:44 pm
by lykos33
Mataura mayfly wrote:Hans,
I cannot get my head around how you twist the hackle and herl and still get the hackle to palmer like that!
That makes 2 of us then.... 
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:48 pm
by Soft-hackle
Smooth, Hans, very smooth!
Mark
Re: Stew's Glassy Spider
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:36 pm
by Kelly L.
Hans, no doubt this is a killer pattern for the fish!