Wet FlyintermediatePacific Northwest
Knudsen Spider
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Pacific Fly Fishers
Matched on Pacific Northwest, wet flies, sea-run cutthroat. Pacific Northwest shop with a large online catalog and steelhead/trout regional relevance.
Big Y Fly Co.
Matched on wet flies, wet, broad catalog. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
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Matched on wet flies, broad catalog. Strong technical tying and trout catalog coverage, especially nymphs, dries, and stillwater flies.
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Al Knudsen was catching sea-run cutthroat on Washington's Olympic Peninsula rivers before the rest of the fly fishing world knew they existed. His Spider is a sparse, elegant wet fly that swings through coastal streams with the kind of understated confidence that only decades of field testing can provide. Yellow body, grizzly hackle, and not much else -- because sea-run cutthroat are aggressive enough that they do not need to be seduced, just presented with something that looks alive. Knudsen understood this in the 1950s, and the pattern has not changed because it has not needed to.
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Where to Fish It
Sol Duc River
WA · Coastal Stream
Queets River
WA · Coastal Stream
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