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Caddis Variant

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook standard dry, 12-16
  • Thread tan 8/0

Materials

  • Body Olive/tan heads (sparse hare's ear dubbing)
  • Rib Gold middle (fine wire)
  • Body hackle Brown hackle (1, palmered)
  • Wing Natural case (sparse deer hair (optional))
  • Hackle Grizzly & brown mixed (oversized, 4-5 turns)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook, start thread, and run to the bend.
  2. Tie in a brown hackle by the tip and a length of fine gold wire at the bend.
  3. Dub a slim tan body forward to the 70% mark.
  4. Palmer the body hackle forward in 5-6 open turns, then counter-wrap the wire through it to lock the stem. The wire keeps trout teeth from unraveling the palmer.
  5. Optionally tie a sparse down-wing of deer hair over the body, tips to the bend.
  6. Wind an oversized mixed grizzly-and-brown collar hackle, 4-5 turns, for a high-riding variant float.
  7. Whip finish a small head.

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