The Gold and Black Spider is a brilliant, traditional wet fly with a dark body, gold accent and soft mobile hackle. It suggests a drowned insect or emerging nymph while the gold provides a restrained flash point.
Fish it upstream through riffles, across-and-down on a controlled swing, or in a wet-fly team. Let the hackle move with the current and allow a gentle lift at the end of the drift. An excellent fish catcher - the pull on a moving wet fly can be wonderfully direct.