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Fluttering Caddis

Dry Fly · Trout · Grayling · Beginner · 2 versions

Note: Contested against a published dressing: This may well be a different fly wearing the same name rather than an error in our record, and a human should decide. Agreement is limited to a fine dubbed olive/brown body on a dry hook in our size range. Source: Fly Fish Food — "Fluttering Caddis" (dry fly tutorial, by Cheech, August 2018) — https://www.flyfishfood.com/blogs/dry-fly-tutorials/fluttering-caddis

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry hook, #12-#18
  • Thread Brown 8/0

Materials

  • Body Olive/tan heads (fine dubbing)
  • Wing Brown permanent marker (2 matched hen or partridge tips, tented)
  • Hackle Ginger/brown hackle (1-2, wound full)

How to tie it

  1. Mount the hook and dub a slim tapered body from the bend forward to the front quarter.
  2. Select two matched hen or partridge feather tips and tie them in as a low tent wing over the back, reaching just past the bend, shiny side out.
  3. Tie in one or two dry-hackle feathers at the wing base.
  4. Wind the hackle in close turns front and back of the wing to make a full, bushy collar that lets the fly sit up and flutter.
  5. Sweep any stray fibers clear of the eye, form a small head, whip finish and cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Fly Fish Food Tie.

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