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Banded Spider
Hook: Grip 14723BL #14
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Hackle: Hen, grizzly
Body: Wire, black; Gudebrod waxed nylon, chartreuse - wrapped together

Cheers,
Hans W

Hans, that's a nice contrasting wee fly. Impeccably tied.
The two body materials wrapped together? Is that so the waxed thread and wire lay side by side on the way up, thus having less of a pronounced wire versus wound as a rib after the silk and to help the wire remain evenly spaced? Or is there some more obvious reason that I have missed?
I do not think I have seen this method before with two so different materials, two different threads or yarns yes, even two wires, but not a thread and a wire.

Mataura mayfly wrote:Hans, that's a nice contrasting wee fly. Impeccably tied.

Hardly - I messed up the pitch in wrap #4. The camera knows...

The two body materials wrapped together? Is that so the waxed thread and wire lay side by side on the way up, thus having less of a pronounced wire versus wound as a rib after the silk and to help the wire remain evenly spaced?

Correct as in less pronounced. The evenly spaced - well, see above

Or is there some more obvious reason that I have missed?

Yep - you missed wrap #4...

I do not think I have seen this method before with two so different materials, two different threads or yarns yes, even two wires, but not a thread and a wire.

Well, now you have

Cheers,
Hans W

I think I see a barb out of place. Ok I will take every fly off your hands that has a missed place wrap, wind, or thread. Believe me I would fish such horribly tied flies!!!! I'm green with envy with all the flies!!!!!

Suddenly I felt the need to go to the store and buy some mint candy!

Hans, thanks for the reply and now you point it out..... I see wrap four, but like a word typed with a couple of letters missing and you can still recognise the word at first glance it is an impeccable fly because the eye see's what the mind wants it to. This is why we are our own worst critiques.