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Mop Caddis Pupa

Nymph · Trout · Grayling · Intermediate · 1 version

Lucian Vasies

  • Hook Demmon C400 BL caddis hook, 10-14
  • Thread Tyer's choice Sumo Power

Materials

  • Body Tan carapace (4mm Ultra Wormy Chenille)
  • Thorax Natural and salt pepper with rusty brown (Mad Rabbit and Pure Squirrel Plus dubbing in a dubbing loop)
  • Legs Grey rubber legs (partridge neck feathers in a dubbing loop)
  • Thorax behind bead A1 thorax behind bead (Atomic synthetic dubbing)

How to tie it

  1. Start the thread on the caddis-shaped C400. Vasies uses Sumo because he likes to apply heavy pressure to lock materials down, and chenille in particular needs crushing or it rolls on the shank.
  2. Tie in a length of 4mm tan Ultra Wormy Chenille at the bend and bind it along the rear half of the shank, leaving the tag end free. The mop chenille is here for one reason: it moves in the current like a real caddis pupa abdomen, which no dubbing can reproduce.
  3. Blend Mad Rabbit natural with salt-and-pepper Pure Squirrel Plus and rusty brown, spin it in a dubbing loop and wrap two or three turns as a shaggy thorax.
  4. Spin grey partridge neck feathers in a second dubbing loop and take one or two turns in front of the thorax so the barbs splay all round as legs.
  5. Dub a small A1 Atomic collar at the very front, then whip finish and pick everything out.
  6. Fish it dead drift near the bottom. Vasies had not fished this one when he tied it. He built it because it has all the right triggers, so treat it as an experiment worth running.

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