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Rosseneau's Rocktober Caddis

Dry Fly · Trout · Intermediate · 1 version

Reference Recipe

  • Hook Standard dry (Ahrex FW531), 12-16
  • Thread Brown 6/0

Materials

  • Razor foam, 1.5mm (underbody) Orange foam strip (1 strip)
  • Dry-fly hackle Brown hackle (1 feather)
  • Centipede rubber legs Tan/brown rubber legs barred (2 strands)
  • Elk hair (wing) Bleached elk hair (1 clump)

How to tie it

  1. Start thread and lay a strip of orange 1.5mm razor foam along the shank, binding it from the bend up to behind the eye and back as a floating underbody.
  2. Tie in a brown hackle at the bend.
  3. Advance the thread to the 70% mark, then palmer the hackle forward over the foam in 5-6 open turns to form the body; tie off and snip.
  4. Figure-8 a tan/brown centipede rubber strand on each side at the 70% mark; trim to about a shank length each side.
  5. Stack a clump of bleached elk hair and tie it in over the body with tips just past the bend for a high-riding caddis tent wing.
  6. Pull the butt ends up, wrap thread through their base, and trim to a short flared head/collar.
  7. Whip finish and cement.

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