Hendrickson Wet Spinner
Tying notes:
I began experimenting with wet spinner patterns in 1999 because I finally realized that they had the potential to be productive. I wanted to reduce my patterns to the bare essentials; those being translucence and an extremely slender body. This pattern has worked well for me, as has a Sulfer version tied with yellow Pearsall's silk and yellow seal fur in sizes #16 & #18. Over the past 3 years wet spinner patterns have accounted for roughly 1/3 of my spinner caught trout.
I fish these patterns both as single flies and as droppers tied to the hook bend of a dry spinner pattern with about 4" of tippet material. When fishing these patterns as single flies I've found that greasing the leader to within a few inches of the fly is helpful in suspending the fly just below the surface. In either case, a dead drift is essential.