Tying a Clyde Style March Brown Spider (Dry Fly) with Davie McPhail

Materials Used and text from the book Let’s Fish The Clyde by Robert C Sharp.. Hook, Fulling Mill All-Purpose Medium size 12 Tail, Dark Ginger Cock Fibres Body, Dark Brown Peacock Quill or Pheasant Tail Fibre ribbed with fine gold wire. Hackle, Dark Brown Partridge next the eye follwed by Dark Ginger Cock or Dark Olive Cock This is a big fly with a wing span of 1 inch.. It hatches in flushes, which can appear twice in a day, each lasting for about 15 or 20 minutes. Trout will, however often ignore the floating dun and concentrate on the nymph, but a floating pattern should always be to hand..