Partridge and Orange
TMC 103BL size 17
YLI #216 Bright Orange Silk
Hungarian Partridge Upper Breast
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Snipe and Purple
TMC 103BL size 17
YLI #244 Eggplant Silk
Jack Snipe Lesser Overcovert (Leisenring writes that the best hackles come from Jack Snipe Undercovert, but I didn't want to waste the few feathers that are there on my skin, while I'm still learning)
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Waterhen Bloa
TMC 103BL size 17
YLI #214 Daffodil Yellow Silk
Waterhen Lesser Undercovert
Mole and Pine Squirrel dubbing (Robert Smith wrote that Water-Rat, the original dubbing for the WB, has a bunch of guard hairs. I like coarse dubbing so I mixed a bit of the standard WB dubbing, Mole, with Pine Squirrel)
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To the naked eye, these ties looked decent to me, but my photographs really accentuate the flaws that are there. But you can also appreciate the sheen of the thread and the texture of the feathers. My hackle is a little bit too long.
This doesn't refer specifically to Spiders, but my biggest problem in tying is crowding the head. I'm getting better at this though.
Dale