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Dancing Caddis

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry-fly hook, 14-16
  • Thread Brown or olive 8/0

Materials

  • Body Olive or brown material (Sparkle/Antron dubbing)
  • Underwing Clear head cement (Antron fibers, sparse)
  • Wing Natural case (Deer hair, tented)
  • Hackle Brown or ginger hackle (One feather)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and start thread at the bend.
  2. Dub a slim sparkle body forward to the 70% mark, keeping a touch of Antron sheen for the caddis bubble.
  3. Tie in a sparse clear Antron underwing over the body.
  4. Stack a deer-hair wing and tie it in tented over the body, tips reaching just past the bend.
  5. Wind a brown hackle in front of the wing, then figure-8 or trim the underside so the fly rides low and can roll into the film.
  6. Build a small head, whip finish and snip.
  7. Trim any errant deer-hair butts so the fly sits and 'dances' flush in the surface.

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