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Adult Stillwater Caddis

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

• Hook standard dry fly, 12-16
• Thread tan/brown 70 denier

Materials

• Body Olive-tan material (superfine dubbing)
• Wing Natural case (deer or elk hair, tent down-wing)
• Hackle Brown hackle (1 feather)

How to tie it

1. Mount the hook and start thread at the bend.
2. Dub a slim tan-olive body to the 70% mark.
3. Stack a deer-hair wing and bind it tent-style over the body reaching just past the bend.
4. Wind 3-4 turns of brown hackle at the front for legs, keeping it sparse.
5. Trim the wing butts to a short head.
6. Whip finish at the eye.

Tying videos

• Adult Stillwater Caddis — Phil Rowley Fly Fishing (YouTube)
• Adult Stillwater Caddis — Outdoors with Adam Eakle (YouTube)
• Adult Stillwater Caddis — JD's Wide World of Fly Fishing and Tying (YouTube)

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