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Bucktail Caddis

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard-to-2XL dry fly hook, 10-16
  • Thread Tan or orange 8/0

Materials

  • Body Tan/olive/orange material (dubbing or dyed rabbit)
  • Hackle Brown hackle (1 dry hackle, palmered)
  • Wing Natural or bleached material (bucktail, downwing)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread, then tie in a brown hackle by the tip at the bend.
  2. Dub a tapered body forward to the 75% mark.
  3. Palmer the hackle forward over the body in 5-6 open turns and tie it off, then trim the top flat so the wing seats down.
  4. Stack a clump of bucktail and tie it in as a downwing over the body, tips reaching just past the bend.
  5. Trim the butts, build a neat head, whip finish, and cement.

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