Watching my fly fishing pictures made during the last years, I found a folder from North Italy (Südtirol). I was fishing there for brown trout on a few rivers: Etsch, Eisack, Passer, Talfer. One of the most productive flies was a caddis dry pattern. I bought a few of this flies from a local fly fishing tackle store and made some modifications to the original pattern after I went home.
Hook: D04BL HW size 10-12
Thread: STD 6/0 Col.06 (brown)
Abdomen: dubbing (olive antron with some squirrel fur)
Thorax: pheasent tail fibres, pre-made deer hair brush
Wing: CDC under wing covered by a grouse / partridge / hen feather
1.Attach the hook firmly in the vice and run on apply your thread base. Split the thread and forme a dubbing rope (olive antron with some squirrel fur), then wind it on.
2.Tie a CDC under wing.
3.Place the feather in your wing burner and trim it to size.
4.Tie in the wing, leaving plenty of room for the thorax.
5.Take a bunch of pheasant tail fibres and catch them in behind the wing.
6.Make a thorax out of deer/elk hair. I used in this case ‘Oliver Edwards Caddis Legs’ but you can make your own deer/elk hair brush from leftovers ( don’t throw away the scraps after tying caddis or muddler minnows).
7.Tie in the hair brush and wind it on.
8.Pull the pheasant tail fibres forward over the thorax and secure them dowm with thread.
9.Trim the rest fibres, keep only two of them as antenae, build a neat head, whip finish and varnish.
10.Voilà this is the fly:
Hook: D04BL HW size 10-12
Thread: STD 6/0 Col.06 (brown)
Abdomen: dubbing (olive antron with some squirrel fur)
Thorax: pheasent tail fibres, pre-made deer hair brush
Wing: CDC under wing covered by a grouse / partridge / hen feather
1.Attach the hook firmly in the vice and run on apply your thread base. Split the thread and forme a dubbing rope (olive antron with some squirrel fur), then wind it on.
2.Tie a CDC under wing.
3.Place the feather in your wing burner and trim it to size.
4.Tie in the wing, leaving plenty of room for the thorax.
5.Take a bunch of pheasant tail fibres and catch them in behind the wing.
6.Make a thorax out of deer/elk hair. I used in this case ‘Oliver Edwards Caddis Legs’ but you can make your own deer/elk hair brush from leftovers ( don’t throw away the scraps after tying caddis or muddler minnows).
7.Tie in the hair brush and wind it on.
8.Pull the pheasant tail fibres forward over the thorax and secure them dowm with thread.
9.Trim the rest fibres, keep only two of them as antenae, build a neat head, whip finish and varnish.
10.Voilà this is the fly:
Superb !!! Bravoo !!
ReplyDeleteMerci Doru! Fiindca toate lucrurile bune 3 sunt, urmatorul model step-by-step tot un caddis va fi!:)
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