The Black Spider Barbless is a versatile, sparse North Country-style wet fly for trout and grayling. Its dark body and soft hackle suggest a small nymph, drowned terrestrial or emerging insect without copying one natural too precisely.
Fish it upstream through riffles and pocket water, across-and-down on a controlled swing, or within a team of spiders. The black silhouette is especially useful in broken water and low light. Its movement gives it the fish-catching appeal that makes wet-fly fishing so rewarding.