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Wet Fly Fishing: Traditional North Country Spiders with Robert L Smith
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2021
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Fishing for trout with simple soft-hackle wet fly patterns on the rain-fed rivers of the North of England has an incredibly strong sense of history and tradition. The language, landscape, feathers and silks used in this style of fly fishing are treated with reverence by the followers of The North Country Style.
Arguments and fights regularly break out over how many turns of which particular hackle is correct. The county of Yorkshire is strongly associated with this school of wet fly fishing and is equally famous for the strong-willed and straight-talking characters who live there.
Here Rob Smith (author of The North Country Fly: Yorkshire's Soft Hackle Tradition) ties and fishes a team of traditional Spiders in an upstream approach. While the materials and patterns are simple, tying them well takes skill - as there is nowhere to hide your mistakes with so few turns of body material and feather.
This short film by John Pearson catches a little of the romance of fly fishing traditions that have been practiced for centuries on the peat-stained, upland rivers of Northern England (and beyond).
Enjoy!
Paul Gaskell (Fishing Discoveries)
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This is the the great short. I enjoy every second of it, music, pace, footage of the angler moments.
Hear ! Here! I agree. Very high product values.
Beautiful footage! Very well captured- and some flies really are timelessly effective.
Cheers Dom. Timeless indeed - those patterns don't show any sign of diminishing powers yet! I'm even told by John Shaner that dry fly luminary Vince Marinaro caught his last ever trout on a soft hackle, North Country Wet Fly...
Those traditional wet flies work just as well on New England brookies! Very nice film.
I just bet they do! Thanks for the kind feedback. Paul
Beautifully shot with a spider dressing commingled with fly presented upstream followed by magical tug.
Glad you enjoyed it Enzo - thank you!
A grand wee film,well done.
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Beautiful way to fish
There’s definitely a poetry to traditional soft hackle wets.
Brilliant video and one to be bookmarked, I have spiders and about to try for the first time but with rivers so low and fish scarce it may just be good practice for now.
Thank very much for sharing such quality of content. Keep going
Super kind of you to say Valentin - we'll do our best!
Amazing footage and lighting, couldn’t want more motivation to go and wet a fly than this.
Thank you Gary - I think that is the best reaction we could ever aim for; to make you feel like picking up a rod and heading for the water right away.
Supremely competent video guys! Great to watch. Just makes you want to get out there! Tx
Cheers Neil - hope you have fun on the river very soon.
I can watch this film over and over again.love the music .great fly tying music.could you tell whos music it is ?
Thanks Russell, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ll have to look up the music piece next time I have the laptop open - it will be by one of the artists on Artlist.io. Paul.
Well done!
Beautifully shot, so tranquil
Thank you Peter - I think John captured the feel of the whole "tradition-soaked" North Country Wet Fly fishing (there's even a little cameo of Edmonds and Lee "Brook and River Trouting"). Paul
@@FishingDiscoveries Hi Paul I have not read the book (shocking as a Yorkshireman) heading up to the Upper Derwent in Yorkshire later...inspired!
That's really special, thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much and I hope we can keep adding to that story in future too. Paul.
Loved it. 👏👏
very beautiful video🤩👏
Thank you 🤗
Awesome video! What is the tool used to scratch the dubbing off the skin?
Search for "ceramic dubbing rake" 😁
That was before I had grey hair 😀
Time flies!
Great footage. Care to share the tackle used for this? What is the leader used? Thanks!
Hi Jeff, I believe Rob was using a Marryat Tactical rod (from memory a 10ft #3 but I can check). Rob's leader is a design he has developed and tweaked over the years - and that is something we will sit down with him and video when we get chance. It is one of the detailed investigations that we've earmarked for including in a feature-length video of tying and fishing North Country Soft Hackle flies. Paul
@@FishingDiscoveries Thanks Paul, I’d love to hear more about it. I live in the states and virtually no one fishes this wonderful method over here. I have had to experiment to find a leader that works for me-what I have come up with is a leader based on George Harvey’s leaders if you are familiar with that. He was a fellow Pennsylvania angler who developed a leader that lands with a bunch of ‘S’ curves for slack in the presentation negating drag issues. I’m sure a Yorkshire man would say it’s not true North Country Style if some bloody Yankee is doing it! 😂
@@jeffhanna763 John Shaner is a big advocate (and regular visitor to Yorkshire and Rob Smith) - based in the Catskills...I really enjoyed my video chat with John which you can find on our channel here: czcams.com/video/5yMCpM2z1RQ/video.html
Bring him back and give him a tenkara rod and horsehair line!
He's already fond of fishing horsehair casts from time to time.
That's dry fly fishing.
Interesting, In what way?