If you were fishing a team of spiders in a relativley shallow river with deeper pools, how many is a team? 2 or 3? and being a shallow river what sort of distance between them 1ft? Would there be different colours in the team?

Any help thankfully accepted.
Jim

I would say three is a team, I usually fish them as far apart as the rod length allows, 9ft rod means you have 8ft to spread them around. try three different colours first and as trout respound to one in particular you can change them. I still like to have one different to show a trout that refused something different

I fish with spiders quite often, I vary the length between them; but as a rule, 2ft-2ft'6in, apart, I fish a team of three spiders, or two spiders on the droppers, and a nymph or gold-head nymph on the point for deeper water; in shallow rough water, I'd put a weighted spider on the point, or in calmer water, three spiders, and retrieve the line slowly; maybe a figure of eight retrieve, I would also (in a calm flow) tie a dry fly on the top dropper, just in case it may induce a rising fish! - There are so many variants to spider fishing, I like the up-stream short line method, when the river is a little lower than normal, fish the riffles and runs close to the bank-side, cast up-stream, as the flies hit the water, lift the tip of the rod slightly!!

If your fishing across, and drifting the flies down-stream, keep the rod tip up, at the end of the drift, lift the rod completely before re,casting!!

Hope this helps in some way?

Mostyn

Yeh thanks alot, im completley new to river fishing so very helpful, thanks to you both

I often do this using a Red Tag as this pattern can be fished wet and then false cast a couple of times to dry it off and float over a rising fish. It is a great taker of grayling.

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