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Candy Shop Callibaetis

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook standard dry, 14-16
  • Thread gray 8/0

Materials

  • Tail Gray/tan material (two microfibbets, split)
  • Abdomen Tan-gray material (turkey biot or dubbing, segmented)
  • Spent wings Tan carapace (scud-back strip, one each side)
  • Post Gray flotation (macrame yarn, upright)
  • Hackle Grizzly & brown hackle (one each, parachute)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook, start thread, and run to the bend.
  2. Tie in two microfibbets and split them into a forked tail matching the natural.
  3. Wrap or dub a slim, segmented tan-gray abdomen forward to the 65% mark.
  4. Tie in a clump of gray macrame yarn upright as a wing post and secure the base. The fat post is highly visible and helps float the fly.
  5. Tie a strip of tan scud-back out to each side as spent nymphal wings.
  6. Tie in a grizzly and a brown hackle at the post and wind both parachute-style around it, 4-5 turns.
  7. Whip finish under the hackle and clip the post to about a gap-and-a-half.

Tying videos

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