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Copper Spider

Hooks - Standard wet fly

Thread - Black or brown

Body - Copper wire

Hackle - Hungarian partridge

It is a variation of the Brassie

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

Well done and a great fly!

I love this fly! More importantly the fish love it. I often church it up a little with a hares ear or muskrat thorax. I prefer muskrat. I also like to these "brassie" versions of the classics with colored wire. So for example partridge with yellow or orange wire, snipe with purple wire, waterhen with olive wire...you get the idea. Well done!

So, I gotta' ask; Norm, do you eat your Wheaties at every meal? I mean, jeez...