The Endrick Spider named after the River Endrick.
A simple little fly that works well for brown trout in rivers and lochs and for rainbows in lochs and stocked fisheries so it is a very useful one to have in your box.
Materials
Hook : Partridge Capt Hamilton Wet sizes 10 to 18. When march browns and LDOs are about size 12 is best.
Thread : Brown 6/0
Underbody : copper wire
Tail and Thorax : cock pheasant tail centre feather
Rib : oval silver tinsel – small
Hackle : grey partridge
Build up a small under body of the copper wire
Catch on the thread and bind down the wire. Build up a small taper at the rear onto the wire so there will be no bumps when you wind on the body.
Fold 4-5 pheasant tail fibres back a right angles so all the tips are aligned and snip off.
Tie in the fibres for the tail.
Snip of the waste, level with the back of the copper underbody and catch in the rib.
Cut of another 6-8 tail feather fibres and tie in with the points facing towards the eye of the hook. Wind the thread to the front of the copper wire.
Wind the feather fibres forward and catch off with the thread. Trim the waste and then wind on the rib in the opposite direction and tie off.
Select a suitably sized grey partridge feather, clean off the fluff at the base.
Stroke most of the fibres towards the base of the stem.
Tie in by the tip and trim off waste.
Fold the hackle fibres towards the tail of the fly and wind on the hackle, keeping on folding the fibres back. Two turns are plenty.
Tie off the hackle and trim the waste.
Whip finish and put on a drop of head cement. That’s it.
